The process of drawing the Lewis structure for CS2 (carbon disulfide) involves several steps. The Lewis structure is a graphical representation that reveals the bonding between atoms and lone pairs on atoms in a molecule. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of how to draw the Lewis structure for CS2:
The process of drawing the Lewis structure for CS2 (carbon disulfide) involves several steps. The Lewis structure is a graphical representation that reveals the bonding between atoms and lone pairs on atoms in a molecule. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of how to draw the Lewis structure for CS2:
Step 1 - Counting Valence Electrons:
First, determine the total number of valence electrons in the molecule.
Carbon has 4 valence electrons, and each sulfur atom has 6 valence electrons.
Since there are two sulfur atoms, the total number of valence electrons is 4+(2×6)=16.
Step 2 - Identifying the Central Atom:
Carbon is the central atom because it has the lowest electronegativity compared to sulfur. Place the carbon atom in the center and the sulfur atoms on either side.
Step 3 - Drawing Single Bonds:
Start by drawing single bonds between the central carbon atom and the two sulfur atoms. Each single bond represents 2 electrons, so you've used 4 electrons so far, leaving 12 electrons.
Step 4 - Placing Remaining Electrons:
Distribute the remaining electrons as lone pairs on the sulfur atoms to satisfy the octet rule, which states that each atom (except hydrogen) should be surrounded by 8 electrons.
Place 6 electrons on each sulfur atom as lone pairs. Now you've used all 16 electrons.
Step 5 - Checking the Octet Rule:
Check to ensure that each atom follows the octet rule.
The carbon atom does not have an octet yet; it only has 4 electrons from the two single bonds.
Each sulfur atom has an octet (2 electrons from the bond to carbon and 6 electrons from lone pairs).
Step 6 - Forming Double Bonds:
To satisfy the octet rule for carbon, form double bonds between carbon and each sulfur atom.
Remove a lone pair of electrons from each sulfur atom and use them to form double bonds with carbon.
The final Lewis structure for CS2 should have a carbon atom in the center double-bonded to two sulfur atoms, with each sulfur atom also having two lone pairs of electrons.
The Lewis structure of CS2 should look like this:
In this structure:
Each line represents a pair of shared electrons (a bond), and each pair of dots represents a lone pair of electrons.
The carbon atom now has 8 electrons (4 from each double bond), and each sulfur atom has 8 electrons (4 from the double bond and 4 from lone pairs), satisfying the octet rule for all atoms.
Lewis Theory and Covalent Bonds
Strategy for Drawing Lewis Structures
Exercise 13 Part e - Calculating the formal charge of the atoms (CS₂)
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In the previous video,
we talked about Lewis theory and ionic bonds.
In this video, we'll talk about covalent bonds.
We're going to describe the Lewis structure of covalent compounds.
Covalent compounds take place between nonmetals.
We're going to describe 2 examples,
water H_2O and oxygen difluoride, which is OF_2.
Let's begin with water.
Hydrogen has 1 valence electron,
and oxygen has 6 valence electrons,
2 pairs and 2 single electrons that are unpaired.
When the molecule is formed,
1 electron from hydrogen shares with
1 electron from the oxygen to form what we call a bond pair.
Now we have a bond pair between hydrogen and oxygen,
and the other one between oxygen and hydrogen.
I've indicated 1 electron in red and 1 in blue,
but it doesn't really matter because electrons are indistinguishable.
Another way of writing this is to indicate a bond pair by a single line,
that's a single covalent bond.
A bond pair to form
is single covalent bond.
We have 2 bond pairs.
In addition, we can add the pairs of electrons on the oxygen.
These pairs of electrons are called lone pairs.
We have lone pairs and bond pairs.
Now if we look at H_2O,
we can count the number of electrons around each atom.
Around hydrogen, there are 2 electrons,
that we call it duplet.
Around oxygen, there are 8 electrons,
we call that an octet,
another duplet, and we can do the same thing in this picture.
If we look at the oxygen,
2 electrons for each bond pair,
and 2 electrons for each lone pair giving a total of 8.
Now let's look at OF_2.
Fluorine has 7 valence electrons,
3 pairs and 1 unpaired electron.
Oxygen has 6 valence electrons as we saw before.
You'll see electrons in the other fluorine.
The unpaired electrons, fluorine can share with
the unpaired electron on the oxygen to form a bond pair,
and each bond pair we saw before,
can be written as a single straight line.
Once again, we can add all the lone pairs.
We have 3 lone pairs around fluorine and 2 lone pairs around the oxygen.
Once again, we can count the number of electrons around each atom,
around fluorine there's an octet,
around oxygen another octet,
around fluorine another octet.
One thing we should notice is that we've counted some of the electrons more than once.
For example, fluorine has 7 electrons,
oxygen has 6,
and fluorine has 7.
That's a total of 20,
and if we counted an octet,
an octet and an octet that means we've counted 24 electrons.
Some electrons are being counted more than once.
Now we're going to describe
a coordinate covalent bond which is a variant on the covalent bond.
Now in our previous examples,
H_2O and OF_2,
each atom contributed 1 electron to the bond pair.
However, sometimes 1 atom contributes both electrons to the bond pair.
This is called a coordinate covalent bond.
Once it's formed, it seemed distinguishable from a covalent bond.
But when it's formed,
it's a coordinate covalent bond.
Let's take an example.
Going to discuss the reaction of ammonia with hydrogen chloride.
Let's look at the Lewis structure of ammonia.
Ammonia has 3 single bonds connecting the nitrogen with each of the hydrogens.
In addition, it has a lone pair,
so that makes an octet,
2 electrons in each of the bond pairs,
and 2 electrons from the lone pair,
a total of 8 electrons.
HCl has a single bond,
so hydrogen has a duplet around it,
and chlorine has a bond pair,
and another 3 lone pairs.
Now what happens when they combine is that
all the electrons in this bond pair go to the chlorine.
Now, chlorine has 1 electron more than it started with.
It started off with 7 and now it has 8,
so it has an additional electrons,
so it's chlorine minus with an octet around it.
Hydrogen is left without any electrons at all.
Hydrogen is H plus,
so we've gone to H plus plus Cl minus.
Now the lone pair on the nitrogen combines with the hydrogen plus.
The nitrogen donates its lone pair to hydrogen plus,
and we get NH_4 plus.
Here are the single bonds.
We have 4 single bonds between the nitrogen and 4 hydrogens,
and the whole species has a positive charge, it's called ammonium.
Now we have ammonium plus and chlorine minus.
We have ammonium chloride.
Now NH_3 ammonia is called a Lewis base because it donates a pair of
electrons and HCL is called a Lewis acid because it accepts a pair of electrons.
In this video, we discussed single covalent bonds,
and also coordinate covalent bonds.
This video discusses covalent bonds, which take place between nonmetals. It explains the Lewis structure of covalent compounds, such as water (H_2O) and oxygen difluoride (OF_2). It also explains the concept of a coordinate covalent bond, which is a variant of a covalent bond where one atom contributes both electrons to the bond pair. This is demonstrated through the reaction of ammonia (NH_3) with hydrogen chloride (HCl), which forms ammonium chloride (NH_4Cl). The video also explains the concepts of Lewis bases and Lewis acids, which donate and accept electrons, respectively.
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