Just wondering whether anyone could help as I've been stuck on this for a while. I've been asked to draw the dot and cross diagram of the anion XeCl3 -
I put the Xe atom in the middle with one electron and put the three Cl's around the Xe each with 7 electrons in their outer shell, I tried various arrangements of the seven electrons in each of the Cls, I tried single dative bonds, covalent double bonds etc and I also tried Xe2Cl6 -2 but I couldn't get all the atoms to have full outer shells
Try one dative bond and two normal covalent bonds.
Dot and cross diagrams are not going to be very good at representing Xe compounds, don't expect there to be a "full shell" of electrons around the Xenon, just make sure it's not a radical.
Try one dative bond and two normal covalent bonds.
Dot and cross diagrams are not going to be very good at representing Xe compounds, don't expect there to be a "full shell" of electrons around the Xenon, just make sure it's not a radical.
How do I go about the two normal bonds when Xe only has one electron?