Lauric acid is used to make the detergents found in shampoo and toothpaste. Lauric acid is similar to stearic acid, but only has 12 carbons. Show the Lewis structure for lauric acid.

Answer : The Lewis-dot structure of is shown below.

Explanation :

Lewis-dot structure : It shows the bonding between the atoms of a molecule and it also shows the unpaired electrons present in the molecule.

In the Lewis-dot structure the valance electrons are shown by 'dot'.

The given molecule is Lauric acid,

As we know that carbon has '4' valence electrons, hydrogen has '1' valence electrons and oxygen has '6' valence electrons.

Therefore, the total number of valence electrons in = 12(4) + 24(1) + 2(6) = 84

According to Lewis-dot structure, there are 76 number of bonding electrons and 8 number of non-bonding electrons.

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