Unshared Pair

Real World Example

Imagine you're at a party where everyone is supposed to bring a dish to share, but you decide to keep your homemade brownies to yourself. This scenario is similar to how an unshared pair of valence electrons behaves in a molecule, where these electrons are held tightly by one atom and not shared with others. Just as you're choosing not to offer your brownies to the group, an unshared pair of electrons is like the brownies, kept by one atom and not distributed or shared with neighboring atoms in the molecule.