If we look at the Lewis dot symbol for oxygen, we see that it has 6 valence electrons (or dots). Hydrogen has one. From the oxygen’s viewpoint, it wants to achieve the noble gas structure of the ...

Students should understand the structure of a molecule as various ... Some of them are- Kössel-Lewis approach, Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory, Valence Bond (VB) Theory ...