What is the Lewis structure of sulfur dioxide? And what is /_O-S-O∠O−S−O?

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anor277
Jun 22, 2017

One........

Explanation:

We have 3xx6=183×6=18 valence electrons to distribute around three centres; the least electronegative centre, SS, is placed in the middle.

And we gets....O=ddotS^(+)-O^(-); and around each atom from left to right there are 6,5, and 7 "valence electrons".........resulting in formal charges of 0,+1,-1....

/_O-S-O=119^@...................

Are the oxygens equivalent?

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