Draw the three equivalent contributing resonance structures for the nitrate ion, NO3. What is the formal charge

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Draw the three equivalent contributing resonance structures for the nitrate ion, NO3¯. What is the formal charge on the nitrogen atom and on each oxygen atom in the individual structures? What is the charge on the oxygens and on the nitrogen in the resonance hybrid structure? Show with curved arrows how the structures can be interconverted.
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Organic Chemistry A Short Course

ISBN: 978-1111425562

13th edition

Authors: Harold Hart, Christopher M. Hadad, Leslie E. Craine, David J. Hart

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