Question

nitrogen cannot from pentahalids.explain​

Answer 1

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Nitrogen cannot form pentahalides because it does not have any d ortbital electrons to form pentavalent species like Nitrogen pentahalides.

Answer 2

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➡️Nitrogen can not form pentahalides bcz

️Nitrogen is perfectly capable of a +5 valence state; that’s its state in nitrates and nitric acid.

But, unlike phosphorus, there isn’t room around nitrogen for five atoms. Nitrogen pentafluoride cannot exist because you can’t fit five fluorine atoms around one nitrogen atom. PF5 exists because phosphorus is bigger than nitrogen.

Phosphorus can’t fit five of just anything around itself, either; as halogens get larger, PX5 gets less and less stable.️