True or False: Nitrogen Family Oxidation States

[Jules18]

The question is True/False.

The only oxidation states exhibited by members of the Nitrogen family are: -3, 0, +3, +5

The answer is false, and I don't know why. All those oxidation #s seemed to make sense to me, and I couldn't think of any others.

Any thoughts as to why that's not true?

 

[Borek]

What nitrogen oxides do you know?

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[Jules18]

I'm used to figuring out oxidation by using that s²p₃ thing and deciding what would make the orbitals more stable, but I've heard that they don't always obey those rules so other than that I'm clueless.

 

[Borek]

calculating oxidation numbers

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