Question

why we don't show any electrons of carbon in the lewis structure of cocl2?

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Answer 1

Only the electrons in the valence level are shown using this notation. ... Electrons that are not in the valence level are not shown in the Lewis symbol. The reason for this is that the chemical reactivity of an atom of the element is solely determined by the number of its valence electrons, and not its inner electrons.