Hydrazoic acid, resonance structures

The azides, except those of mercury) ), Hg(l,i, thalliura(l), 11(1), copper. Cu, silver, Ag, and lead, Pb, are readily prepared from hydrazoic acid and the oxide or carbonate of the metal, or by metathesis of the metal sulfate with barium azide. They are all thermally unstable, giving nitrogen and free metal or occasionally nitride. The azide ion appears to resonate between four structures ... [Pg.1083]

Hydrazoic acid HN3 is stabilized by resonance between the structures ... [Pg.116]

Write three resonance structures for hydrazoic acid, HN3. The atomic arrangement is HNISTN. Show formal charges. [Pg.361]

Azides form highly explosive shock- and heat-sensitive salts with many metals. They are derivatives of hydrazoic acid, HN3, containing a -N moiety attached to the metal, by ionic or covalent bond. The azide gronp has a linear structure that is stabilized by resonance as follows ... [Pg.613]

Resonance, (a) Write two contributing structures consistent with the octet rule for hydrazoic acid, HN3, for which the sequence of bonded atoms is HNNN. Keep formal charges to a minimum, (b) Locate all formal charges in each structure, (c) Which if any is the correct formula of the molecule Explain, (d) Predict the two N-to-N bond distances for HN3 relative to single-, double-, and triple-bond distances. [Pg.400]

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