Examples
Some molecular compounds that adopt square pyramidal geometry are XeOF4, and XF5 (X = Cl, Br, I) also have square pyramidal geometries. Complexes of vanadium(IV), such as are square pyramidal (acac = acetylacetonate, the anion of 2,4-pentanedione that has lost a proton).
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