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How many double bonds are in AsO2?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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This is the meta-arsenite ion. As a free discrete ion it probably does not exist. Unlike nitrite ion which is a symmetric bent molecule with two identical N-O bonds, with formally 1 double bond.

In the solid phase the meta-arsenites such as NaAsO2 contain polymeric chain ions.

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