Lewis Structures

• Guidelines for Drawing
• Formal Charge
• Resonance Structures

Exceptions to the Octet Rule

• Expanded Octets
• Incomplete Octets

VSEPR Theory

• Main ideas
• Pairs vs basic geometric shape
• Lone pairs & bonded pairs vs molecular shape
• AXE notation
• How to determine shape?
• Determining the hybridization of the central atom
• Molecular shapes and polarities

1 & 2 electron groups

• Linear I
• Linear II

3 electron groups