Sulphur trioxide acts as:

an electrophile

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a nucleophile

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a free radical

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all of these

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Solution

The correct option is B an electrophile
In $S O_{3}$ , sulphur has vacant d-orbitals and a nucleophile can attack into these vacant d-orbltals, so it acts as an electrophile.

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