Drawing Ionic Compunds

[Drew Myers 4G]

How exactly are we supposed to draw ionic compunds? I know it was briefly addressed in class, but I’m still confused.

[JonathanS 1H]

To draw ionic compounds, draw the lewis structures of each ion individually, and label the charge of each and put them in brackets.

[Amir Bayat]

Ionic compounds are drawn through their Lewis Structures with a bracket around the entire structure and the charge on the top right corner.

[Amanda Ung 4D]

Use lewis structures and put a bracket around it with the charge in the upper right hand corner

[Matt F]

So the brackets are drawn as opposed to the atoms being bonded since they're ions, correct? So we'd be marked wrong for including a bond between them?

[JonathanS 1H]

If it is a true ionic bond, yes, because drawing a bond represents a covalent bond.

[Harry Zhang 1B]

For example, if you are drawing the ionic compound NaCl, Na will have no dots around it because it lost its valence electron indicated by the +1 charge and chlorine will have 8 dots around it because it pulled the electron from Na to itself, indicated by the charge 1-. Then you would draw them separately and put a bracket around each of them instead of a line because a line represents the sharing of electron and ionic compound does not share electron.

[Megan_1F]

To draw an ionic lewis structure, you separately draw out each element in their own brackets.