Chemistry 111: Homework Assignment 4

Due: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by 10:30 am (i.e., prior to class)

Submit your completed homework to your sections file on the second floor of Kent. Be sure that
your name is on your paper and that the pages are securely attached to each other.
PMC stands for Principles of Modern Chemistry, 8th edition, by Oxtoby, Gillis, and Butler.
1. (I came across this problem while preparing exam 1, but it was too time consuming to include
there, so here it is.) The cyanate ion, OCN , is very stable, while the fulminate ion, CNO ,
is very unstable (the atoms are ordered as written in the linear molecules). Draw three Lewis
diagrams contributing to resonance for each and indicate the formal charges on the atoms.
Use the formal charges to rationalize why cyanate is much more stable than fulminate.
2. PMC, Chapter 3, problem 94
3. PMC, Chapter 9, problem 6
4. PMC, Chapter 9, problem 12
5. PMC, Chapter 9, problem 24
6. PMC, Chapter 9, problem 26
7. PMC, Chapter 9, problem 36
8. PMC, Chapter 9, problem 40