Organic Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry
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2. Consider the following molecules or ions: CIOF5, NOBr, NH2F, and XeO2F3+. Answer the following questions based on
the Lewis structures and VSEPR theory prediction of their molecular shapes.
(a) Which one has only bond angles of 109.5°?
(b) Which one has only bond angles of 120°?
(c) Which one has bond angles of 90 and 180°?
(d) Which one has bond angles of 90, 120, and 180°?
10. Each ball-and-stick model below shows the electron-pair and molecular geometry of a
generic molecule. Explain what is wrong with each molecular geometry and provide the
correct molecular geometry based on the number of lone and bonding pairs around the
central atom.
(a)
(b)
(c)
11. Draw the Lewis structure for acetamide (CH3CONH2) and determine the geometry about
each interior atom. Experiments show that the geometry about the N atom in acetamide is
nearly planar. Draw a resonance structure that can account for the planar geometry about
the N atom.
Methyl isocyanate, CH3NCO, was made infamous in 1984when an accidental leakage of this compound from a storagetank in Bhopal, India, resulted in the deaths of about3800 people and severe and lasting injury to many thousandsmore. (a) Draw a Lewis structure for methyl isocyanate.(b) Draw a ball-and-stick model of the structure,including estimates of all the bond angles in the compound.(c) Predict all the bond distances in the molecule.(d) Do you predict that the molecule will have a dipolemoment? Explain.
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Organic Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry
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