Basically just draw out the dot and cross diagram for Fluorine. The + means it's missing 1 electron so it'll have 6 in its outer shell. Then just do the 1 electron from each Hydrogen being donated to the rest of the fluorine in the dot and cross diagram. Should have 2 lone pairs and 2 bonded
Basically just draw out the dot and cross diagram for Fluorine. The + means it's missing 1 electron so it'll have 6 in its outer shell. Then just do the 1 electron from each Hydrogen being donated to the rest of the fluorine in the dot and cross diagram. Should have 2 lone pairs and 2 bonded
What you describe would be identical to Water's dot and cross diagram and would contain no dative bond.
A better way would be to draw the diagram for HF then add on a H+ (this is better because addition of protons to HF is how the species forms)
This gives a slightly different, correct, diagram!
What you describe would be identical to Water's dot and cross diagram and would contain no dative bond.
A better way would be to draw the diagram for HF then add on a H+ (this is better because addition of protons to HF is how the species forms)
This gives a slightly different, correct, diagram!
Oh oops yeah I forgot there was another step to it. I just usually do the dot and cross thing to extablish the sort of diagram i'm doing then I do brackets around it with a plus sign and an arrow instead of a line in the compound where one of the Hs is datively bonded.
Oh oops yeah I forgot there was another step to it. I just usually do the dot and cross thing to extablish the sort of diagram i'm doing then I do brackets around it with a plus sign and an arrow instead of a line in the compound where one of the Hs is datively bonded.
Need to do more chemistry practise haha.
Just thought I'd be picky for the sake of being 100% right, your way still ends up with the right diagram in terms of the final positions of electrons, just doesn't show where they come from so well!
Just thought I'd be picky for the sake of being 100% right, your way still ends up with the right diagram in terms of the final positions of electrons, just doesn't show where they come from so well!