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Lewis Theory

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Question

Classify the following species as Lewis acids and Lewis bases.
$N H_{3}, B F_{3}, S n C I_{4}, C_{2} H_{5} N H_{2}, C O, N i^{+}$

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Solution

Lewis acids are those which can accept a pair of non bonding electron pair and lewis bases are those which can donate a pair of electron pair.
Lewis acid :- $B F_{3}, S n C l_{4}, N i^{+}$
Lewis base:- $N H_{3}, C O, C_{2} H_{5} N H_{2}$

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