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[1] [2] [3] Introduced by Gilbert N. Lewis in his 1916 article The Atom and the Molecule, a Lewis structure can be drawn for any covalently bonded molecule, as well as coordination compounds. [4] Lewis structures extend the concept of the electron dot diagram by adding lines between atoms to represent shared pairs in a chemical bond.
The tetrahedral molecule features C-I distances of 2.12 ± 0.02 Å. [2] The molecule is slightly crowded with short contacts between iodine atoms of 3.459 ± 0.03 Å, and possibly for this reason, it is thermally and photochemically unstable. Carbon tetraiodide crystallizes in tetragonal crystal structure (a 6.409, c 9.558 (.10 −1 nm)). [3]
Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS [1] (October 23 [2] [3] [4] or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) [1] [5] [6] was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.
Lewis structures (or "Lewis dot structures") are flat graphical formulas that show atom connectivity and lone pair or unpaired electrons, but not three-dimensional structure. This notation is mostly used for small molecules. Each line represents the two electrons of a single bond. Two or three parallel lines between pairs of atoms represent ...
Examples of Lewis dot diagrams used to represent electrons in the chemical bonds between atoms, here showing carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O). Lewis diagrams were developed in 1916 by Gilbert N. Lewis to describe chemical bonding and are still widely used today. Each line segment or pair of dots represents a pair of electrons.
In chemistry, an electron pair or Lewis pair consists of two electrons that occupy the same molecular orbital but have opposite spins. Gilbert N. Lewis introduced the concepts of both the electron pair and the covalent bond in a landmark paper he published in 1916.
It is a tetrahedral molecule with Si-I bond lengths of 2.432(5) Å. [1] SiI 4 is a precursor to silicon amides of the formula Si(NR 2) 4 (R = alkyl). [2] It has also been of interest in the manufacture and etching of silicon in microelectronics.
Although silicon tetrahalides obey the octet rule, they add Lewis basic ligands to give adducts with the formula SiBr 4 L and SiBr 4 L 2 (where L is a Lewis base). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Lewis acidic properties of the tetrahalides tend to increase as follows: SiI 4 < SiBr 4 < SiCl 4 < SiF 4 .