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What do you understand by electron rich compounds of hydrogen.

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Electron rich compounds of hydrogen contain excess valence electrons to form covalent bonds.
Examples include group 15 and group 17 hydrides such as NH3,PH3,HCl,HBr etc. These compounds contains lone pairs of electrons.

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