CHEM 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Electronegativity, Molecular Geometry, Trigonal Pyramidal Molecular Geometry

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Indicate the anion in brackets to show the charge belongs to whole assembly including the electron dots. In covalent bonds atoms share electrons: represent covalent bonding in lewis theory by lettings atoms share their dots, the 2 electrons in the middle are shared by both atoms and count towards the octet of each. Chemical bonding: the electrons between two atoms are called bonding electrons, while those on a single atoms are called lone pair electrons, bonding electrons count toward the octet of both atoms. Lone pair atoms count toward the octet of the atom they are on: we can simplify our notation by representing bonding electron pairs with dashes. The final lewis structure must contain exactly this total number of electrons: place the electrons as dots to give octets to as many atoms as possible. (begin by putting a single bond between all bonded atoms. Distribute the remaining electrons beginning with terminal atoms and ending with central atom.

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