(a) Draw a Lewis structure for the carbonate anion CO32– each oxygen is bonded only to the carbon.
(b) Calculate the formal charge on each atom.
(c) What is the shape of this species?
(d) Experimental evidence shows that all of the oxygen’s arc identical. Explain.
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