Methyl isocyanate, CH3NCO, was made infamous in 1984 when an accidental leakage of this compound from a storage tank in Bhopal, India, resulted in the deaths of about 3800 people and severe and lasting injury to many thousands more. (a) Draw a Lewis structure for methyl isocyanate.

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Hi everyone here. We have a question telling us that Cyanamid, N. C NH two is widely used in agriculture and the production of pharmaceuticals and other organic compounds. And our goal here is to provide the lewiS structure for Cyanamid. So we have carbon Which has four valence electrons. We have two hydrogen. So we have two times one valence electron. We have two nitrogen. So we have two times five valence electrons. So we have a total of 16 bands electrons and a electron pairs. So let's bond everything. We have a nitrogen Bonded to two hydrogen bonded to a carbon bonded to nitrogen. So so far we have 1234 electron pairs are hydrogen are filled and now we need to fill the rest of our test. So our nitrogen needs a lone pair and our carbon and nitrogen need to be triple bonded. Now we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 567 electron pairs. And then nitrogen needs another lone pair and that makes eight. So we've got our eight electron pairs. And that is our final lewis structure. Thank you for watching. Bye.