Carbon Tetrachloride Lewis Structure Shape. However the lewis structure provides no information about the shape of the molecule which is defined by the bond angles and the bond lengths. As an example let s use carbon tetrachloride ccl4.
A regular atom of carbon has 4 lone electrons in its outer shell. Carbon completes its octet by forming bonds with four chlorine atoms. It consists of one carbon and four chlorine molecules.
Carbon completes its octet by forming bonds with four chlorine atoms.
In the carbon tetrachloride molecule four chlorine atoms are positioned symmetrically as corners in a tetrahedral configuration joined to a central carbon atom by single covalent bonds. In the carbon tetrachloride molecule four chlorine atoms are positioned symmetrically as corners in a tetrahedral configuration joined to a central carbon atom by single covalent bonds. Therefore the number of valence electrons for this molecule is 4 4 7 32. Carbon completes its octet by forming bonds with four chlorine atoms.
