Ah, I also forgot the formal charge rule, making the central sulfur double bonded to each of the three oxygen atoms to give a formal charge of 0 (6 valence e- - 6 bonds=0), rather than the 1 and 1/3 bond I mentioned in my earlier post. This then gets more into molecular orbital theory, with...
I have a few questions about the synthesis and toxicity of hydrazine (N2H4). First of all, is it possible to synthesize hydrazine under a fume hood by mixing concentrated ammonia, sodium hypochlorite (bleach), and a gellatinous material (gelatin?)? I have read that high temperatures and high...
In sulfur trioxide the central sulfur is bound in a trigonal planar geometry with three oxygens. Once you have the fundamental geometry you can determine the orbital hybridization. Since there are three "things" attached to the sulfur and it has no lone pair, it must be sp2 hybridized creating...