This was a fantastic lewis dot structure example. I am currently taking organic and inorganic chem so, this was an excellent video. The terms were spot on and you made it simple. Thanks!
Start watching from 0:37. Since this is an ion, it needs brackets around it. As well, there is a positive charge on the ammonium, so the positive charge goes outside the square bracket.
Nitrogen cannot break the octet rule. In the 2nd energy level there is no 2d, so it must obey the octet rule. FC rule is used for central atoms in period 3 and greater.
How does this follow the octet rule of nitrogen has 5 electrons and there are 4 hydrogen atoms? That would be a total of 9 ē, but you took one off because it's positively charged? Can someone explain?
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This was a fantastic lewis dot structure example. I am currently taking organic and inorganic chem so, this was an excellent video. The terms were spot on and you made it simple. Thanks!
And we do it in class 8
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you have to memorize 109.5 degrees for the tetrahedral bond angles
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Start watching from 0:37. Since this is an ion, it needs brackets around it. As well, there is a positive charge on the ammonium, so the positive charge goes outside the square bracket.
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Nitrogen cannot break the octet rule. In the 2nd energy level there is no 2d, so it must obey the octet rule. FC rule is used for central atoms in period 3 and greater.
so if you were finding the formale charge of P in (CH3)4P it would be the same concept because both P and N are in the same 5 group?
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Do we just draw a normal structure and put the ion charge around it?
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How did you get 109 degrees? is that just something you have to know?
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I thought Nitrogen usually has 3 single bonds and 1 lone pair. Can you please explain when it does not follow this rule.
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Hate to break it to you but that is not a lewis dot structure. What you did is a structural diagram of ammonium
How did NH4 get the + to begin with?
Is the ammonium ion polar or nonpolar?
If Nitrogen can have up to 3 bonds, how come I see 4?
because there is 4 more valence electron on Hidrogen element. N(H4)= H1e- × 4e-
How does this follow the octet rule of nitrogen has 5 electrons and there are 4 hydrogen atoms? That would be a total of 9 ē, but you took one off because it's positively charged? Can someone explain?
+TheMansonMouse It's a positively charged ion so the total number of valence electrons is 9 - 1 = 8
it usually makes triple bonds, but it can make other bonds.
Can you explain why its sp3?
Why is it sp3? I don't understand
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can't nitrogen only make three bonds?
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but nitrogen doesn't form 4 covalent bonds
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