Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
This lecture covers the methodology for drawing Lewis structures, including enumerating valence electrons, connecting atoms, assigning ion charges, and placing electrons. It explains the concept of formal charges in Lewis structures and how to determine the most plausible structure. The lecture also discusses hypervalence, hypovalence, and the importance of minimizing electronic repulsion energy to determine molecular geometries.