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Need help!!! Don’t understand

Need help!!! Don’t understand-example-1

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A) Neither carbon nor oxygen has satisfied the octet rule

To begin with...

The bond between carbon and oxygen is suppose to have 3 bonds in between

Second:

The lone pairs are not drawn. Since carbon monoxide has 3 bonds in between it should have a lone pair (2 dots) left over on each atom.

Reminder: in order to satisfy the octet rule EACH atom must have 8 electrons. Carbon has 4 valence shell electrons and oxygen has 6. In order to satisfy this rule, there should be 3 bonds in between which makes a total of 6 for each atom plus the lone pairs that make up the 8.

I hope that’s not too confusing, if you still have any questions please let me know in the comments (:
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