Methyl isocyanate, CH3NCO, was made infamous in 1984 when an accidental leakage of this compound from a storage tank in Bhopal, India, resulted in the deaths of about 3,800 people and severe and lasting injury to many thousands more.
(a) Draw a Lewis structure for methyl isocyanate.
(b) Draw a ball-and-stick model of the structure, including estimates of all the bond angles in the compound.
(c) Predict all the bond distances in the molecule.
(d) Do you predict that the molecule will have a dipole moment? Explain.