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Offline Ciubba

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Hydrogen Isocyanide Lewis Structure
« on: October 28, 2014, 10:52:01 PM »
Why is the Lewis structure of HNC H-N≡C: and not H-N:=C:, where the colon represents a lone pair. Can Carbon never be electron deficient?
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Re: Hydrogen Isocyanide Lewis Structure
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2014, 01:55:07 AM »
Who says that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocyanide

It is  mesomer between both structures.
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Re: Hydrogen Isocyanide Lewis Structure
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2014, 07:20:39 AM »
Fot the first structure an octet rule is fulfilled, hence qualitatively is much more probable.
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Re: Hydrogen Isocyanide Lewis Structure
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2014, 11:28:12 AM »
Thanks, both answers delivered the information I required.
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