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Topic: Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?  (Read 1052 times)

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Offline vicentemartinez

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Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
« on: March 29, 2020, 12:17:55 PM »
Supposedly every atom that is in the second period of the periodic table has to obey the octet rule, this means that they have to be surrounded by 8 electrons (or so I was taught). Studying resonance in an exercise they showed how nitrogen as NO2 can form 5 bonds, which would mean that NO2 does not behave according to the rule previously mentioned. I am at a loss, any help would be great.
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Offline chenbeier

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Re: Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2020, 12:40:23 PM »
Nitrogen can form several compounds with oxygen, N2O, NO, N2O3, NO2, N2O4 and N2O5.
Not all compounds following the 8 electrons law.
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Offline Babcock_Hall

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Re: Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2020, 01:05:16 PM »
@OP, Can you show us the resonance forms that you mean?
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