Given Carbon Tetrachloride, CCla. The most electronegative element is so the center element should be b. Draw the skeletal structure, showing one bond between each terminal atom to the center a. atom. cl С. The total number of valence electrons for this molecule is d. After subtracting 2 electrons per bond used in part (b) above, the number of electrons left is е. The number of electrons needed to complete the octet rule for each atom in the molecule is

Given Carbon Tetrachloride, CCla. The most electronegative element is so the center element should be b. Draw the skeletal structure, showing one bond between each terminal atom to the center a. atom. cl С. The total number of valence electrons for this molecule is d. After subtracting 2 electrons per bond used in part (b) above, the number of electrons left is е. The number of electrons needed to complete the octet rule for each atom in the molecule is

Introductory Chemistry: A Foundation

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Chapter12: Chemical Bonding

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