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Dichromate (VI) Cr2O7-2

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Hello all.

Can some one expain me please how this double bonds are formed?

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oooo that's my mistake I counted chromium as (V) and it's (VI)

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like this ?


Ok all Oxygens are happy, they have full outer valence shells of 8 electrons.

But chromium have 12 now! Something not right here.

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Cr's electron configuration, following the model would be: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s23d4, but instead it is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s13d5, because there is extra stability gained from the half-filled d orbital.

 

Now you bond Chromium with oxygen. Chromium will be most stable 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s23d10

Therefore chromium wants 6 electrons from oxygen. The middle oxygen takes 1 all the time and the remaining three oxygens incompletely share the remaining 5 electrons. All the oxygens want 2 electrons.

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