Question

Statement: Aluminium chloride $Al{Cl}_3$ is a Lewis acid because it can donate the electron.

If the given statement is true enter 1 if false enter 0.

Answer 1

Lewis Acid: a species that accepts an electron pair (i.e., an electrophile) and will have vacant orbitals. Anhydrous aluminium chloride is a powerful Lewis acid, capable of forming Lewis acid-base adducts with even weak Lewis bases. Because $Al$ has vacant orbitals in $AlC{l}_3\left(1s^{2}2s^{2}2p^{6}3s^{0}3p^0\right)$ so can easily accept electron lone pair.

thus $AlC{l}_3$ is weak acid but as Lewis acid accepts an electron, the statement is false.

Hence, the given statement is $false$