Nitrous oxide (N2O) has three possible Lewis structures:
Gien the following bong lengths;
N−N 167 pm N=O 115 pm
N=N 120 pm N−O 147 pm
N≡N 110 pm
rationalize the observations that the N−N bond length in N2O is 112 pm and that the N−O bond length is 119 pm. Assign formal charges to the resonance structures for N2O. Can you eliminate any resonance structures on the basis of formal charges? Is this consistent with observation?
