EXPERIMENT • VSEPR THEORY AND SHAPES OF MOLECULES
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Postlaboratory Exercise
1. Draw all of the resonance structures for N2O5
2. Which of these are the major resonance contributors?
3. C6H6 is a ring-shaped molecule. Draw a lewis dot structure for this molecule. Based
on what you have drawn, do you think this molecule is planar, in that all of its atoms are
on the same plane? Why or why not?