Question

I'm trying to find the electron dot structure and the structural formula for some molecule but I don't know how to tell which is which in my book. Could someone please give me any example?

Answer 1

I have what I think is the dot structure but when I looked up the structural formula they looked the same.. The book gave me two so I don't know which is which.

Answer 2

Is there a specific molecule you had in mind? Polyatomic ion, simple compound, an organic species, inorganic salt....

Answer 3

Well the project I'm doing is to list the chemical, electron dot, and structural formula for water, ammonia, carbon dioxide, fluorine, methane, and ethane(which I can't find any for)

Answer 4

Here is the give stuff for ammonia, so after the arrow there is the NH with dots and the NH with lines. Are the both dot structures? @abb0t

Answer 5

Start by drawing each atom seperaltyje:

Answer 6

As in it's two-dimensional structure?

Answer 7

May I show you what I have so far please?

Answer 8

This is everything I have found.

Answer 9

Yes. They are correct.

Answer 10

Okay, In the picture of the book, Does it show the structure formula and if not how would I go about finding it?

Answer 11

Can you show me an example of what the structural formula would look like using a different molecule? So I can still find the ones I need on my own.

Answer 12

Hello?? Kind sir?? @abb0t

Answer 13

What do you mean? Of a different molecule? Have you tried, N\(_3\)\(^-\)?

Answer 14

I don't know what that is, sadly. I'm not very good at chemistry. I don't know much of this at all. What dose A structural formula look like? To me, that looks like a chemical formula..

Answer 15

Of "A" ?
Your photo above, shows the electron configuration. below, you see the structural formula.

Answer 16

I don't think I quite understand your question. I am sorry. Are you asking me to define what it means?

Answer 17

Sorry that wasn't meant to be capitalized. Is that the structural formal?

Answer 18

No. That is the electron configuration.

Answer 19

The structural formula, as the name implies, is a structure. Meaning, it has an arrangement and that it also takes a geometrical shape on some axis.

Answer 20

Oh, okay. Would you be so kind as to name each colored circle with what it is?

Answer 21

\(\sf \color{red}{3D~structure}\), \(\sf \color{blue}{lewis~dot~structure,~or~structural~formula}\), \(\sf \color{green}{lewis~dot~structure}\), \(\sf \color{pink}{electron~configuration}\), \(\sf \color{yellow}{molecular~formula}\)

Answer 22

Is this right? @abb0t

Answer 23

Yes.

Answer 24

Awesome, thank you for your help! May I ask you one more question? For the drawing, I am to draw a two dimensional structure of each. Would that be each of their arrangements? Like how water is a tetrahedral arrangement. @abb0t

Answer 25

Depends on how deep you are into chemistry... Water is of the tetrahedral molecular geometry, but it is actually "bent" because of the two lone pairs of electrons on the oxygen molecule.