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Hello students, let's begin with this question.
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This question is based upon the lewis dot structure.
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So, generally the lewis in the lewis dot structure, the valence electrons, these are represented by the dots.
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So, here in this question, some options are the given and we have to find out the correct lewis structure of the methanol.
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So, this is the methanol.
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So, now here, if we see, carbon has the 4 valence electrons, then comes the hydrogen, then hydrogen has the 1 valence electron, then comes the oxygen, then the oxygen has the 6 valence electrons.
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So, now here, now if we see the total valence electrons, so this is equals to 4 plus 3 into 1 plus 6 plus 1.
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So, there are total 14 valence electrons that are present in the methanol.
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So, now if we see from the given options, the first lewis structure is the, here is the carbon having the 3 hydrogens and here is the oxygen, but there are 2 hydrogens are attached to it.
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So, here comes the positive charge.
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So, this will have, this is the option c, this will have the plus 1 formal charge.
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So, next is the, now also we have to calculate the formal charge here...