Department of Chemistry, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A.
Department of Chemistry, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. The substance has 19 electrons to place and is a tetrahedral family member. It will have a non-bonding pair and a non-bonding single electron.
Draw the Lewis structure of BeCl2 on a separate sheet of paper. Predict the geometry around each of the carbon atoms in this molecule. Chemists often must be able to predict the shape of molecules.