4.3 Lone Pairs

4.3 Lone Pairs

• There are lone pairs that occupy hybridized orbitals.

• The nitrogen atom has trigonal pyramidal geometry, just as we saw in the previous section.

• There is only one pair on this nitrogen atom.

• The first resonance structure has 3 hybridized.

• The nitrogen atom is trigonal planar rather than trigonal pyramidal.

• Predict the geometry of each nitrogen atom and each oxygen atom in the following compounds using the VSEPR theory.