{"id":264213,"date":"2025-07-21T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=264213"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:46:51","slug":"what-is-the-lewis-structure-of-the-following-molecules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/21\/what-is-the-lewis-structure-of-the-following-molecules-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Lewis structure of the following molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the Lewis structure of the following molecules? A. CH3NH2 (whose skeletal structure is H3CNH2) B. CH3CO2CH3 (whose skeletal structure is H3CCOOCH3, with both O atoms attached to the second C) C. NH2CO2H (whose skeletal structure is H2NCOOH, with both O atoms attached to C)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s break down the Lewis structures for each molecule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nitrogen (N)<\/strong> is bonded to two hydrogens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The carbon (C)<\/strong> is doubly bonded to oxygen<\/strong> (C=O) and single-bonded to another OH<\/strong> group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The oxygen atoms<\/strong> have lone pairs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Lewis structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The nitrogen has 3 bonds (2 with hydrogens and 1 with carbon).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The carbon has 4 bonds (1 with nitrogen, 1 with OH, and 1 double bond with oxygen).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Each oxygen has lone pairs to satisfy the octet rule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Key Points:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n
Each atom in these molecules obeys the octet rule (except hydrogen, which follows the duet rule).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Single and double bonds are used to ensure each atom has the appropriate number of electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The lone pairs on nitrogen and oxygen atoms complete their octet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the Lewis structure of the following molecules? A. CH3NH2 (whose skeletal structure is H3CNH2) B. CH3CO2CH3 (whose skeletal structure is H3CCOOCH3, with both O atoms attached to the second C) C. NH2CO2H (whose skeletal structure is H2NCOOH, with both O atoms attached to C) The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Let’s break down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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