Tuesday, June 19, 2018

How can Iodine bond with 5 Fluorines in Iodine Pentafluoride?


Iodine Pentafluoride


According to this lewis diagram, Iodine has 12 valence electrons? How is the possible? Only thing I can think of is that I'm mistaken in counting the covalent bonds as two valence electrons each. Do they only count as one in this scenario?




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