Sulfur Dioxide Lewis Structure. The molecular geometry of so2 has a bent shape which means the top has less electronegativity and the bottom placed atoms of oxygen have more of it. Sulfur dioxide has pungent smell like nitric.
We will construct the lewis structure of so 2 molecule by following vsepr theory rules and considering stability of intermediate structures. Alternatively the electron geometry of sulfur dioxide is in the shape of a trigonal planar. After obtaining the lewis structure of so 2 we can determine the hybridization of atoms.
Sulfur dioxide molecule contains one sulfur atom and two oxygen atoms.
The dot structure for sulfur dioxide has sulfur with a double bond to an oxygen on the left and two lone pairs of electrons on that oxygen and the sulfur with a double bond to an oxygen on the right and two lone pairs of electrons on that oxygen. Sulfur dioxide so 2. And then we have a lone pair of electrons on our sulfur. In so 2 lewis structure so 2 molecular geometry is a bent shape.
