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Either it's late and I'm losing it or I'm finding things in destroyer gchem that doesn't make sense.


Destroyer draws Br2O as Br-O-Br

BUT the most electronegative element is suppose to be in the center (basic chem rule)

so why the hell isn't it Br-Br=O
It looks weird yes but it goes with the least EN in middle rule
 
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yakuza said:
Either it's late and I'm losing it or I'm finding things in destroyer gchem that doesn't make sense.


Destroyer draws Br2O as Br-O-Br

BUT the most electronegative element is suppose to be in the center (basic chem rule)

so why the hell isn't it Br-Br=O
It looks weird yes but it goes with the least EN in middle rule
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O is more electronegativity than Br.

I cannot sleep either
 
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ucla2134 said:
O is more electronegativity than Br.

I cannot sleep either
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he is right. And this is a pretty important concept. In addition, I am too lazy to draw it out, but I'm pretty sure that Br in the centre will have a charge.. which the molecule Br2O does not have... so your structure is wrong.

Proof: the reason why N O and F hydrogen bond is because they are the most electronegative elements.
 
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yakuza said:
BUT the most electronegative element is suppose to be in the center (basic chem rule)


It looks weird yes but it goes with the least EN in middle rule
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I dunno which rule is right, but I want to disagree that this is even a rule at all, because I can think of multiple exceptions to both of these just sitting here.
 
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