there is concern in health-related government agencies that the american diet contains too much meat, and numerous recommendations have been made urging people to consume more fruit and vegetables. one of the richest sources of vegetable protein is soy, available in many forms. among these is soybean curd, or tofu, which is a staple of many asian diets. chemists have isolated an anticancer agent called genistein from tofu, which may explain the much lower incidence of cancer among people in the far east. a valid lewis structure for genistein is

Explanation:

The aim of this question is to draw the structure of genistein and determine the number of atoms with sp² hybridization in the molecule.

From the image below, we will see the lewis structure of genistein. From the image, the blue asterisk atoms are sp² hybridized and the red marked atoms are sp³ hybridized.

We will also notice that all the carbon atoms contain 3 σ-bonds with no lone pair of electrons.

Using the knowledge of Valence shell electron repulsion theory (VSEPR), the above-mentioned carbon atom is said to be sp²hybridized.

Also, the oxygen atoms which are doubly bounded contains 1 σ-bond and 2 lone pair electrons. These oxygen atoms are also sp² hybridized.

Finally, the singly bonded oxygen atom is composed of 2 σ-bonds and 2 lone pair electrons. This makes it to be sp³ hybridized.

Altogether, we have a total of 16 sp² hybridized atoms and 4 sp³ hybridized atoms.