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Lewis structure for caffeine

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Lewis structure is a type of structural formula that describes the bonding between atoms in a molecule. It shows how many electrons are shared between two or more atoms and which orbitals are being used for the bond. Lewis structures can be used to predict several properties of molecules, including their boiling point, melting point, reactivity and solubility. Caffeine is an organic compound with molecular formula C8H10N4O2 that contains four nitrogen-containing rings connected by three single bonds and one double bond. Its Lewis structure can be drawn using valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory to determine the geometry around each atom in the molecule and then drawing out each atom's individual electron pairs according to its VSEPR geometry.

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