Question

By December 31, 2003, concerns over arsenic contamination had prompted the manufacturers of pressure-treated lumber to voluntarily cease producing lumber treated with CCA (chromated copper arsenate) for residential use. CCA-treated lumber has a light greenish color and was widely used to build decks, sand boxes, and playground structures.

Required:
Draw the Lewis structure of the arsenate ion (ASO4^3-) that yields the most favorable formal charges.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

lewis structure can be defined as a process of how the valence shell electrons of a molecule is being arranged, the pattern of it arrangement and the relationship between the bonding atoms and the lone pairs present in the molecule.

In order to draw the Lewis structure for Arsenate ion
`\mathsf{AsO \ _4^(3-)}`, first thing is to count the valence electrons in the molecule. Once we determine the valence electrons, then we distribute them around the central atom. The Arsenate ion structure is tetrahedral in nature with a bond angle of 109.5° and it is sp³ hybridized.