
Chemistry: Principles and Practice
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ISBN: 9780534420123
Author: Daniel L. Reger, Scott R. Goode, David W. Ball, Edward Mercer
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 9, Problem 9.77QE
Write the Lewis structures for the following species, and indicate whether each is an odd-electron species, an electron-deficient species, or an expanded valence shell species. There is only one central atom in each.
- (a) XeF2
- (b) BeCl2
- (c) XeO2F4 (both O and F are terminal atoms)
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