Chemical bonding help

[I wannabe a doc]

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I need help bonding atoms together and figuring out the lone pairs left over. I'm in o-chem right now and I can't even do covalent bonding or draw lewis structures. Never really learned the basics so im kinda struggling. I tried doing count the numbers of valence electrons given by each atom and then drawing the bonds. Troubles im having is when to double bond or triple bond. The hard part is when you have structures with formal charges and not following in organic rules for bonding.

 

[theWUbear]

inb4 ksmi117 says no class help on sdn

 

[hiyaman]

Google Organic chemistry forums,

the one that says "the original" or something is good.

They have a forum for O-chem hw help.

 

[Pons Asinorum]

I need help bonding atoms together and figuring out the lone pairs left over. I'm in o-chem right now and I can't even do covalent bonding or draw lewis structures. Never really learned the basics so im kinda struggling. I tried doing count the numbers of valence electrons given by each atom and then drawing the bonds. Troubles im having is when to double bond or triple bond. The hard part is when you have structures with formal charges and not following in organic rules for bonding.

You started taking OChem last fall, and dropped it because you didn't feel like you could do it at the same time as cell bio. You knew you had a deficiency knowledge-wise then, what did you do in the mean time to fix it? You've put up a thread like this for basically every class you take, what have you done to try and improve your study habits/skills? The answers to why you keep struggling in these classes isn't going to be resolved by a thread in the pre-allo forum. Go get some help from professionals at your school who can look over the way you actually take notes, study and process information. To keep doing things the same way over and over again isn't going to result in any improvement.