Lewis Dot Structure of ClO2 (Chlorine DiOxide)

I quickly take you through how to draw the Lewis Structure of ClO2 (Chlorine DiOxide). I also go over the formal charge.

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Education

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• Lewis
• dot
• structure
• hybridization
• chemistry
• bond
• angle
• drawing
• ClO2

[DiabloMercy]

hold on a sec, the single bond, do you mean dative bonds? (OarrowCL-arrowO)

[kentchemistry]

@DiabloMercy @DiabloMercy No this video is to give students strategies for tackling a complex Lewis dot structures. Moving a pair of electrons from oxygen to be shared would be dative, if this happened in nature. However this is just problem solving, coming up with the structure and not how it actually formed. I hope this clarifies your concern.

[DiabloMercy]

@kentchemistry well i am a student myself, jus clarifying, so its a double bond btwn the Cl and O right? like O=Cl=O ??

[kentchemistry]

It is more like a 1.5 bond. Think of it as an average of the 2 structures. Not quite a double bond but not as weak as a single bond. Molecular Orbital Theory clarifies this better than a Lewis Dot Structure. Lewis has limitations.

[francesckona]

wonderful videos!!!!!!!!!!!

[heath3rr]

That's not how I did it...

[J3LLYF1SHxClan]

@pk4lyfe123 hahaha soooo lame xD

[telamarna1983]

@kentchemistry

hello, nice videos, i want to know how to make lewis structure for transition elemnts and also their geometrie

[pk4lyfe123]

What has lower engergy? A hamburger or a steak?

A hamburger because its in the ground state :)