IF3 Lewis Structure Guide: Mastering the Bonding Pairs & Electron Counting

[ultimateguy]

Trying to draw Lewis structure for IF3. There's four atoms, so 32 electrons needed minus the 28 availabe (7 valence each) give 4 electron bonded pairs, which is 2 bonds... but there has to be at least 3. I'm stupid, what am I missing?

edit: never mind i got it

 

[Gokul43201]

You're missing nothing...except the fact that it needn't always be possible to have octets everywhere.