(c) Would you expect N2O to exhibit delocalized p bonding?

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Hi everyone here, we have a question asking us to determine if the lone pair in the molecule below exhibits D localization. So let's draw its residents structure. Its resonance structure is going to have the nitrogen double bonded to the carbon. We're changing our double bonds here, single bonded to carbon, double bonded to carbon, single bonded to carbon double bonded to carbon, single bonded to carbon. And the hydrogen is will be in the same place. So our lone pair is also going to remain in the same place, which means it is not de localized. And that is our final answer. Thank you for watching. Bye.

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