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Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
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vicentemartinez
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Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
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March 29, 2020, 12:17:55 PM »
Supposedly every atom that is in the second period of the periodic table has to obey the octet rule, this means that they have to be surrounded by 8 electrons (or so I was taught). Studying resonance in an exercise they showed how nitrogen as NO2 can form 5 bonds, which would mean that NO2 does not behave according to the rule previously mentioned. I am at a loss, any help would be great.
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Re: Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
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March 29, 2020, 12:40:23 PM »
Nitrogen can form several compounds with oxygen, N
2
O, NO, N
2
O
3
, NO
2
, N
2
O
4
and N
2
O
5
.
Not all compounds following the 8 electrons law.
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Babcock_Hall
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Re: Why dosen't No2 form according to the octet rule?
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March 29, 2020, 01:05:16 PM »
@OP, Can you show us the resonance forms that you mean?
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