Solved: Perchlorates are powerful oxidizing agents used in fireworks, flares, and the

Chapter 10, Problem 10.81

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Perchlorates are powerful oxidizing agents used in fireworks, flares, and the booster rockets of space shuttles. Lewis structures for the perchlorate ion (ClO4 _) can be drawn with all single bonds or with one, two, or three double bonds. Draw each of these possible resonance forms, use formal charges to determine the most important, and calculate its average bond order.

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