Methyl isocyanate, CH3NCO, was made infamous in 1984when an accidental leakage of this compound from a storagetank in Bhopal, India, resulted in the deaths of about3800 people and severe and lasting injury to many thousandsmore. (a) Draw a Lewis structure for methyl isocyanate.(b) Draw a ball-and-stick model of the structure,including estimates of all the bond angles in the compound.(c) Predict all the bond distances in the molecule.(d) Do you predict that the molecule will have a dipolemoment? Explain.

Methyl isocyanate, CH3NCO, was made infamous in 1984when an accidental leakage of this compound from a storagetank in Bhopal, India, resulted in the deaths of about3800 people and severe and lasting injury to many thousandsmore. (a) Draw a Lewis structure for methyl isocyanate.(b) Draw a ball-and-stick model of the structure,including estimates of all the bond angles in the compound.(c) Predict all the bond distances in the molecule.(d) Do you predict that the molecule will have a dipolemoment? Explain.

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Chapter10: Molecular Structure And Bonding Theories

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