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Why Carbon monoxide does not obey octet rule??? does it form covalent bond?? how??

Why Carbon monoxide does not obey octet rule??? does it form covalent bond?? how??

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Aarti Gupta
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9 years ago
In carbon monooxide molecule,carbon(C) has 4 valence e- and oxygen( O) has 6 e-.Thus total no. of valence electrons will be 10e-.If single bond is formed between C and O,to complete the octet of oxygen ,then remaining two electrons are the lone pair on C-atom.
C ----O(SINGLE BOND),this will not complete the octet on carbon.So in this way it does not obey the octet rule.But triple bond is formed between C and O.There will be shairing of total 6e- between carbon and oxygen,thereby satisfying octet of both the atoms.

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