JEE Advance - Chemistry (2013 - Paper 1 Offline - No. 2)

The total number of lone-pairs of electrons in melamine is
Answer
6

Explanation

The structure of melamine is :

JEE Advanced 2013 Paper 1 Offline Chemistry - Biomolecules Question 19 English Explanation

Each nitrogen has one lone pair of electrons. Number (no.) of nitrogen in a molecule $=6$

Total no. of lone pairs in melamine

$$ \begin{aligned} & =\text { No. of nitrogen } \times \text { lone pair } \\\\ & =6 \times 1=6 \end{aligned} $$

Hence, total number of lone pair on nitrogen is 6.

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