Question

Give resonance structure of CO2

Answer 1

Carbon dioxide, or CO2, has three resonance structures, out of which one is a major contributor. The CO2 molecule has a total of 16 valence electrons , 4 from carbon and 6 from each oxygen atom. ... Structures 2 and 3 show charge separation caused by the presence of formal charges on both oxygen atoms.

Answer 2

The resonating structure of $CO_2$ is shown below.

Explanation :

Resonance structure : Resonance structure is an alternating method or way of drawing a Lewis-dot structure for a compound.

Resonance structure is defined as any of two or more possible structures of the compound. These structures have the identical geometry but have different arrangements of the paired electrons. Thus, we can say that the resonating structure are just the way of representing the same molecule.

First we have to determine the Lewis-dot structure of $CO_2$.

Lewis-dot structure : It shows the bonding between the atoms of a molecule and it also shows the unpaired electrons present in the molecule.

In the Lewis-dot structure the valance electrons are shown by 'dot'.

The given molecule is, $CO_2$

As we know that carbon has '4' valence electrons and oxygen has '6' valence electrons.

Therefore, the total number of valence electrons in $CO_2$ = 4 + 2(6) = 16

According to Lewis-dot structure, there are 8 number of bonding electrons and 8 number of non-bonding electrons.

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