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Offline Badozlon

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Urgent - Iodite
« on: January 20, 2009, 07:37:09 PM »
How would you go about drawing the structure of Iodite (IO\2^-)?

Does I take the floating electron or does one of the O's take it?

I just cant get it to work out!

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Re: Urgent - Iodite
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2009, 08:10:08 PM »
The more electronegativity takes the electron.
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Re: Urgent - Iodite
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2009, 08:52:37 PM »
Ok so one of the O's take it and bonds to the only electron not in a lone pair on I. 

then what happens with the other O?  does it double bond to I? and if so where?

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Re: Urgent - Iodite
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2009, 11:00:10 PM »
Yes the other oxygen atom is double bonded to I.
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