masochist Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 This was a 2 part question.Part iDraw the 2 possible Lewis structures of N3H.Part iiPredict the N-N-N and H-N-N bond angles in each case and give your reasoning.This is the answer scheme:I successfully drew them both but I don't understand the bond angles part.Firstly for the N-N-N one i don't get why it is 180 because there is a lone pair on the first N? do you disregard lone pairs if they're not on the centre atom?Also for I N-N-H i don't understand why there are THREE charge centres? There does not appear to be any a lone pair on the centre N of N-N-H?.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilia Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 Yes, you only consider the central atom. For the second question, remember that lone pairs and bonds are negative charge centrews, so as it has 2 bonds and 1 lonepair, it has three negative charge centres. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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