Question

classify each of the following species acid or a Lewis base H20 co2

Answer 1

Answer:

both are slightly acific

Answer 2

Explanation:

Lewis acid is a substance that can accept a pair of electrons. Lewis base is a substance that can donate a pair of electrons.

To classify the following species as Lewis acid or a Lewis base, write their Lewis structures and identify lone pairs on vacant orbitals in the central atom.

(a) The Lewis structure of is

The central atom C can accept lone pair of electrons, by vacating an orbital through removal of the electron pair on thepi bond.

So, is a Lewis acid.

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