Difference between revisions of "Lewis acid"

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Latest revision as of 19:02, 20 April 2019

Lewis acids are chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct.

Classically, the term "Lewis acid" is restricted to trigonal planar species with an empty p orbital, such as BR3 where R can be an organic substituent or a halide.

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