Re: TOJC Sulfur

ennennd@PLU.edu
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:38:43 -0800 (PST)

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Sulfur is in group 6 in the periodic table so the number of valence
electrons in the free atom is 6. You then subtract the number of
assigned electrons (regardless of how many bonds -- the assigned e-'s
depend on those bonds) from the number of valence electrons and there is
your formal charge. Hope this helps!
Nate Ennen

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 mundenhj@PLU.edu wrote:

> I have a question on problem 1.23, if sulfur can have a lot of electrons
> in it's valence shell, then how do you tell what the formal charge on
> sulfur is?
>
> Thanks
> Heather Munden
>

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