Carbonyl chloride (phosgene), CoCI2, is a highly toxic gas used as a starting material for plastic synthesis,here is South Africa (Sasol), as well as the rest of the world.a) Draw the Lewis dot structure and calculate the formal charges of the carbon and oxygenatoms.b) What is the molecular geometry of the molecule?

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