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Even though their Lewis dot structures show C=C bonds, aromatic compounds prefer substitntion reactions to addition reactions. 

Chemists often focus on the electrons in the outermost shell of the atom because these electrons are involved in the formation of chemical bonds and in chemical reactions. Carbon, for example, with the ground-state electron configuration 2 2p, has four outer-shell electrons. Outer-shell electrons are called valence electrons, and the energy level in which they are found is called the valence shell. To illustrate the outermost electrons of an atom, chemists commonly use a representation called a Lewis dot structure, named after the American chemist Gilbert N. Lewis (1875-1946), who devised it. A Lewis dot structure shows the symbol of the element surrounded by the number of dots equal to the number of electrons in the outer shell of an atom of that element. In Lewis dot structures, the atomic symbol represents the core (i.e., the nucleus and all inner shell electrons). Table 1.4 shows Lewis dot structures for the first 18 elements of the Periodic Table. 

The development we have just gone through for NH3 is readily extended to the water molecule, H20. Here the Lewis structure shows that the central oxygen atom is surrounded by two single bonds and two unshared pairs ... 

Nonmetal atoms share electrons until each has completed its octet (or duplet) a Lewis structure shows the arrangement of electrons as lines (bonding pairs) and dots (lone pairs). 

In this section, we develop a process for making schematic drawings of molecules called Lewis structures. A Lewis structure shows how the atoms in a molecule are bonded together. A Lewis structure also reveals the distribution of bonding and nonbonding valence electrons in a molecule. In a sense, a Lewis structure is a molecular blueprint that... 

Our treatment of O2 shows that the extra complexity of the molecular orbital approach explains features that a simpler description of bonding cannot explain. The Lewis structure of O2 does not reveal its two unpaired electrons, but an MO approach does. The simple (t-tt description of the double bond in O2 does not predict that the bond in 2 is stronger than that in O2, but an MO approach does. As we show in the following sections, the molecular orbital model has even greater advantages in explaining bonding when Lewis structures show the presence of resonance. 

The structure of ozone, (a) The Lewis structure shows resonance that involves the bond (blue lines) and one lone pair (red dots), (b) The a bonding framework. 

A review of ozone illustrates the four-step procedure. The Lewis structure shows nine pairs of valence electrons. As Figure 10-36a highlights, two pairs form the bond framework, two pairs are in different locations in the two... 

The Lewis structure shows that methyl methaciylate has the formula C5 Hg O2, with 40 valence electrons. You should be able to verily that the two CH3 groups have. s -hybridized carbons, the inner oxygen atom is s hybridized, the outer oxygen atom uses 2 p atomic orbitals, and the three double-bonded carbons are s p hybridized. These assignments lead to the following inventory of a bonds and inner-atom lone pairs ... 

In Chapter 2, we saw molecular and empirical formulas. Recall that the molecular formula indicates the kind and actual number of atoms present. The empirical formula simply shows the kind of atoms present and their lowest whole number ratio. In this chapter, structural formulas are important. The Lewis formula of a compound is an example of a structural formula. A structural formula shows the number and type of atoms present, as well as the bonding pattern. The bonding pattern shows which atoms bond to each other. It usually... 

A Lewis structure can show the bonding pattern in a covalent compound. In Lewis formulas, we show the valence electrons that are not involved in bonding as dots surrounding the element symbols. The valence electrons involved in bonding are present as dashes. There are several ways of deriving the Lewis structure, but here is one that works well for most compounds that obey the octet rule. 

This Lewis structure shows methane, the simplest organic compound. The carbon atom has four valence electrons, and it obtains four more electrons by forming four covalent bonds with the four hydrogen atoms. 

These are extensions of Lewis dot structures, where bonding electrons associated with each bond are shown as dots. In our simple structures, bonding is associated with eight electrons in the valence shell of the atom, unless it is hydrogen, when two electrons are required for bonding. Whilst we have almost completely abandoned putting in electron dots for bonds, we still routinely show some pairs of electrons not involved in bonding (lone pairs) because these help in our mechanistic rationalizations of chemical reactions. 

A comparison of the calculated and observed bond lengths shows that neither structure is correct. Nevertheless, these contributing (resonance) structures tell us that the actual resonance hybrid has some double-bond character between N and O, and some triple-bond character between N and N. This state of affairs is described by the non-Lewis structure... 

Lewis structure shows the connectivity between atoms in a molecule by a number of dots equal to the number of electrons in the outer shell of an atom of that molecule. A pair of electrons is represented by two dots, or a dash. When drawing Lewis structures, it is essential to keep track of the number of electrons available to form bonds and the location of the electrons. The number of valence electrons of an atom can be obtained from the periodic table because it is equal to the group number of the atom. Eor example, hydrogen (H) in Group lA has one valence electron, carbon (C) in Group 4A has four valence electrons, and fluorine (E) in Group 7A has seven valence electrons. 

For about 75 years the silicon tetrachloride molecule (which we select as an example) was assigned the simple valence-bond structure A. G. N. Lewis introduced the practice of showing the unshared... 

A Lewis structure shows the approximate locations of bonding electrons and lone pairs in a molecule. However, because it is only a two-dimensional diagram of the links between atoms, except in the simplest cases it does not depict the arrangement of atoms in space. 

Trivalent ( classical ) carbenium ions contain an, vp2-hybridized electron-deficient carbon center that tends to be planar in the absence of constraining skeletal rigidity or steric interference. (It should be noted that ip-hybridized, linear acyl cations and vinyl cations also show substantial electron deficiency on carbon.) The carbenium carbon contains six valence electrons, and thus it is highly electron-deficient. The stmcture of trivalent carbocations can always be adequately described by using two-electron, two-center bonds (Lewis valence bond structures). 

A complete structural formula (such as a Lewis structure) shows all the atoms and bonds in the molecule. A condensed structural formula shows each central atom along with the atoms bonded to it. A line-angle formula (sometimes called a skeletal structure or stick figure)... 

Acetylene (C2H2) has a triple bond. Its Lewis structure shows three pairs of electrons between the carbon atoms to give them octets. The following examples show organic compounds with triple bonds. A triple dash (=) symbolizes a triple bond. 

Some compounds structures are not adequately represented by a single Lewis structure. When two or more valence-bond structures are possible, differing only in the placement of electrons, the molecule will usually show characteristics of both structures. The different structures are called resonance structures or resonance forms because they are not different compounds, just different ways of drawing the same compound. The actual molecule is said to be a resonance hybrid of its resonance forms. In Solved Problem l-l(d) we saw that the ion [H2CNH2]"1" might be represented by either of the following resonance forms ... 

These Lewis structures show the formation of a bond between a sodium... 

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