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Offline jeffbab171

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Lewis structure for Luminol
« on: March 04, 2007, 05:35:35 PM »
Hi, I'm having trouble drawing a Lewis Dot Structure for Luminol. I know how to make Lewis structures, but for this molecule, I'm having a lot of trouble.

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Re: Lewis structure for Luminol
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2007, 09:48:47 PM »
how many valence electrons are involved?
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Re: Lewis structure for Luminol
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2007, 10:22:41 PM »
element    group number    valence electrons
carbon           IV                        4
Hydrogen       I                          1
Nitrogen        V                         5
Oxygen         VI                        6

Luminol = C8H7N3O2

valence electrons = (8*4)+(7*1)+(3*5)+(2*6) = 66

now just draw the structure and fill in electrons where they need to be to satisfy the octet rule.

Luminol structre:
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