Ozone Lewis Structure Formal Charge. Draw a lewis structure for the ozone molecule o3. Oxygen has 6 valence electrons.
As ozone has one central oxygen atom having eight electrons in its outermost shell the hybridization for the central atom will be sp2. Look at the top left oxygen atom. Consider the resonance structures for o 3.
What is the charge.
What is the charge. A formal charge is equal to the number of valence electrons of an atom minus the number of electrons assigned to an atom. Draw a lewis structure for the ozone molecule o3. In the example below we calculate the formal charge on each atom in a lewis structure.
