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Q: Why back bonding occurs in BF3 and not in BCl3?
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Why BF3 is a weaker acid than BCl3?

electron back bonding in bf3 due to vacant p orbital so stable and does not react.


Which is the increasing acidity order of those Lewis acid BF3 BBr3 BI3 BCl3?

Increasing order of Lewis acidity BH3>BBR3>BCl3>BF3


How many bonding and non-bonding electrons pairs are found in the BF3 molecules?

There are three bonding pairs of electrons in BF3. There are 0 nonbinding pairs, but BF3 can accept two more electrons to give it a complete octet


Should you buy BF3 Back to Karkand?

oh yeah


Why BI3 is more acidic then BF3?

) Boron atom, in BX3, has six electrons in the outermost orbit and thus it can accept a pair of electrons form a donor molecule like NH3 to complete its octet. Hence boron halides act as very efficient Lewis acids. The relative Lewis acid character of boron trihalides is found to obey the order ; BI3>BBr3>BCl3>BF3.However, the above order is just the reverse of normally expected order on the basis relative electronegativities of the halogens. Fluorine, being the most electronegative, should create the greatest electron deficiency on boron and thus B in BF3 should accept electron pair from a donor very rapidly than in other boron trihalides. But this is not true.This anomalous behavior has been explained on the basis of the relative tendency of the halogen atom to back-donate its unutilised electrons to the vacant p orbitals of boron atom. In boron trifluoride, each fluorine has completely filled unutilised 2p orbitals while boron has a vacant 2p orbital. Now since both of these orbitals belong to same energy level (2p) they can overlap effectively as a result of which fluorine electrons are transferred into the vacant 2p orbital of boron resulting in the formation of an additional pπ-pπ bond. This type of bond formation is known as back bonding or back donation. Thus the B- F bond has some double bond character. Back bonding may take place between boron and of the three fluorine atoms and thus boron trifluoride is regarded as a resonance hybrid of some structures.Resonance in boron trifluoride is also evidenced by the fact that the three boron-fluorine bonds are indentical and are shorter than the usual single boron-fluorine bond As a result of back bonding, the electron deficiency of boron is reduced and hence Lewis acid nature is decreased. The tendency for the formation of back bonding (pπ-pπ bond) is maximum in BF3 and decreases very rapidly from BF3 to BI3This is probably due to the fact that overlapping of the vacant 2p orbitals of boron cannot take place easily with the p-orbitals of high energy levels (3p in Cl, 4p in Br and 5p in iodine). Thus BI3Br3 and BCl3are stronger Lewis acids than the BF3.


Is bf3 a nonpolar or polar molecule?

BF3 is Non-Polar :)


What is the prefix for bf3?

The prefix for "bf3" is "boron trifluoride."


What is better BF3 or MW3 and why?

BF3 because i have both and BF3 is very realiastic, has many interactive objects like vehicles, the online is very nice. MW3 is almost cartoony compared to BF3 and MW3 is just like the other COD's and gets boring. its predictable. I like BF3 way more. :)


What is the hybridisation state of central atom in nh3 and bf3?

The central atom of ammonia is nitrogen and it has 3 bonding pairs and a lone pair around, hence it undergoes sp3 hybridization. The central atom of boron trifluoride is the boron atom, and around it has only three bonding pairs. So it hybridizes as sp2.


What will be better mw3 or bf3?

bf3 all the way Jokes Mw3 is way better


Can you get HD back on Battlefield 3 even if you denied it and if so how?

Every time you turn on bf3 it will show up if you denied it.


Which one of them violates the octet rule for non hydrogen elements.. PCl3 SCl2 BF3 Br2 NO3?

BF3. It exists as a non-octet molecule with 3 single covalent bonds between each Boron and Fluorine atom. This satisfies the outer shells of each Fluorine atom but Boron exists with only 3 pairs of electrons - 6 in total. This forms a trigonal planar shape as there are no non-bonding electron pairs, rather than pyramidal, such is the case with a compound like ammonia (NH3).