Question

Two substances with empirical formula HNO are hyponitrous acid (M = 62.04 g/mol) and nitroxyl (M = 31.02 g/mol).(b) For each species, draw the Lewis structure having the lowest formal charges. (Hint: Hyponitrous acid has an N=N bond.)

Answer 1

Below is an attachment of the Lewis structure with the lowest formal charges.

The formal charge is the fictitious charge that an atom in a molecule would have if the electrons in the bonds were evenly distributed among the atoms. The nonbonding electrons on a neutral atom are subtracted from its valence electron count, which is then followed by the number of bonds that bind it to other atoms in the Lewis structure, to get the formal charge. This is another way to put it. When hyponitrous acid is oxidized in the atmosphere, nitric and nitrous acids are produced. By reducing a nitrate or nitrite by sodium amalgam in the presence of water, hyponitrite salts have been created.

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