Question #0179e

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Aug 17, 2016

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Explanation:

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B has two vacant 2p orbital and both are likely same in size.In structure of BF3 we see that there are 3 sp^2-p bond or B-F sigma bond formed by 3 sp^2hybridized p orbital of Boron. Thus, boron has 6 electrons in valency shell. So it is electron deficient.