The following ball-and-stick molecular model is a representation of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in such over-thecounter headache remedies as Tylenol. 1Red = O, gray = C, blue = N, ivory = H.2 (c) What is the geometry around each carbon?

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Hey everyone, we're told that a settle Salik acid and over the counter analgesic drug commonly known as aspirin is depicted as a ball and stick molecule in the following chemical model. With red being oxygen gray being carbon and ivory being hydrogen. What is the geometry around each carbon? Now, before we determine the geometries, let's go ahead and label our carbons to make it a little bit easier for us. So this will be carbon A. Carbon B. Carbon C. Carbon D. Carbon E. Carbon F. Carbon G. Carbon H. And carbon I Now let's go ahead and look at each carbon separately. Starting with carbon A. We can see that we have our central atom which is our carbon and we see that it is surrounded by three atoms. So its geometry is going to be a X three which is Tribunal Plainer. Now let's go ahead and look at carbon B. Carbon B is also connected to three atoms. So this will be tribunal planer as well. Next looking at carbon C. We have our central atom carbon which is connected to three Adams surrounding it. So again this is a X. Three which is tribunal planer. Looking at carbon de again, we have three atoms surrounding it. So this is tribunal planer as well. Looking at carbon E. We have a X three as well which gives us Tribunal plainer Next looking at carbon F. We have a X three again, since we have three electron groups surrounding it. So it is Tribunal Plainer Next looking at G we have AX three as our geometry again. Which means we have tribunal planer. Next looking at H, We have a X 3. 1 more time since we have three items surrounding it. So we have tribunal planner as our geometry. And lastly looking at I We can see that this is connected to four atoms, so we have a X4. So this is going to be tetra hydro and this will be our final answers for this question. Now I hope that made sense and let us know if you have any questions.