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Expressing resonance when drawing Lewis structures may be done either by drawing each of the possible resonance forms and placing double-headed arrows between them or by using dashed lines to represent the partial bonds (although the latter is a good representation of the resonance hybrid which is not, formally speaking, a Lewis structure).
The number of electron pairs in the valence shell of a central atom is determined after drawing the Lewis structure of the molecule, and expanding it to show all bonding groups and lone pairs of electrons. [1]: 410–417 In VSEPR theory, a double bond or triple bond is treated as a single bonding group. [1]
Draw the structure, and save it as a ChemDraw file. If you drew the structure before applying any settings, then you need to select the object, open the “Object” menu and choose “Apply document settings from → ACS Document 1996”. Then save it as a PNG file, to be read by an image editor such as GIMP or IrfanView (see below for details).
Often, the main problem with drawing chemical structures in inkscape is that it does not have a hexagonal matrix built in. One can use the polygon/star tool (make sure that it's set to "polygon", checkbox at top, and that it's set to 6 corners). Hold down "ctrl" while drawing the first hexagon to get the angles straight.
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The most common Lewis bases are anions. The strength of Lewis basicity correlates with the pK a of the parent acid: acids with high pK a 's give good Lewis bases. As usual, a weaker acid has a stronger conjugate base. Examples of Lewis bases based on the general definition of electron pair donor include: simple anions, such as H − and F −
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