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16. Assertion: AsCl3 behaves as Lewis acid.
Reason: AsCl3 has a lone pair of electrons on As.

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it has 3 electrons in valence shell so it doesn't form an octate by doing so, thus it can take two more electrons by forming a coordinating bond to complete an octate and thus it behaves as Lewis acid

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16. Assertion: AsCl3 behaves as Lewis acid. Reason: AsCl3 has a lone pair of electrons on As.​

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16. Assertion: AsCl3 behaves as Lewis acid.
Reason: AsCl3 has a lone pair of electrons on As.