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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Vapour density of mixture of NO2 and N2O4 is 34.4 , then percentage abundance (by volume) of NO2 in mixture is .

Molecular weight = 2×VD
                                = 2× 34.5 = 69 u
Consider ℅ of NO2 is "x" then % of N2O4 is "100-x"

Saturday, June 27, 2020

What are the structure of CO2 , NO2+ , OCN- , SCN- ?

These molecules are isoelectronic so structure are also similar :

Why does CO form a coordinate bond?


In carbon monoxide molecule carbon and oxygen form a double bond by sharing of two bond pairs , in which 
carbon as well oxygen contributes 2 electrons to each other to form a double bond . 
Now octet of oxygen is completed but carbon is left with two (2) valence electrons and it has a total of six electrons so it's octet is incompleted.

Hence carbon is relatively unstable than oxygen atom because oxygen has nearest noble gas configuration of 8 electrons in their valence shell.

So in order to attain stability oxygen contributes one of its lone pair of electrons to the carbon atom in the formation of a coordinate bond . This leads to completion of octet of both carbon and oxygen .
Important note: 
In coordinate bond a pair of electrons is shared between two atoms but it is contributed by a single atom( Here contributor of lone pair is oxygen atom).

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How can draw the Lewis Structure of CO?

The electronic configuration of carbon and oxygen atoms as

C6 =1s2 2s2 2p2
O8 =1s2 2s2 2p4

This information can be used to determine the Lewis Dot Structure of  Carbon monoxide (CO):

Step 1: calculate total valence electrons  for carbon and oxygen atoms.

C = 4
O = 6

Total electrons in CO molecule =10

Step 2: Find octet electrons for each atom , carbon and oxygen

C: 8
O: 8

Total octet electrons =16

Step 3: Find the bonding electrons Subtract total valence electron from total octet electrons

16-10=6 electron (3 bond pair)

Step 4: Find number of bonds between carbon and oxygen atoms  by dividing the number of bonding electrons by 2

6-electrons/2 = 3 bonds

Step 5: The rest are non bonding pairs. Subtract bonding electrons  from valence electrons .

10-6= 4e-= 2 lone pairs


The Lewis structure of CO is identical with that for HC:::CH  except that the C-H bond pair replace by lone pairs.

      "CO is also isoctronic with CN-"