11. Bonding & Molecular Structure

How many shared electrons are around the oxygen atom?

Which of the following atoms has the most valence electrons?

Which of the following contains an atom that may have an incomplete octet?

Atoms of oxygen have a total of 8 electrons. Are these atoms stable, and why or why not?

What will oxygen likely do to complete its outermost shell, based on the Lewis dot diagram shown?

Which of the following statements is or are true?

i. Any molecule that doesn’t satisfy the octet rule is hypervalent.

ii. Elements in the third row of the periodic table can form hypervalent molecules, whereas those in the second row cannot.

iii. Any molecule in which there are four bonds to the central atom satisfies the octet rule.