2.2A Drawing Lewis Structures

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A covalent bond is formed by the electrostatic attraction between…

a shared pair of electrons and the positively charged nuclei

Molecular compounds are formed as a result of covalent bonding between non-metals. Electrons shared between two atoms are known as ______ _____.

bonding pairs

Exceptions to the Octet Rule:

• Beryllium

• Boron

able to form compounds in which they do not have a full octet

Their compounds (termed electron deficient) react quickly with compounds containing lone pairs of electrons to gain a full octet

Some atoms can have more than 8 electrons in their outer shell. These atoms use vacant d-orbitals to exceed their octet (e.g. SF6)

What do Lewis Structure tell us?

show all of the valence electrons (bonding and non-bonding pairs) in a covalently bonded species