In the reaction of aluminum bromide with ionized sodium bromide, which compound is the Lewis acid?
1 Answer
Feb 25, 2016
In other words you ask which is the electron pair acceptor. Clearly, it is aluminum.
Explanation:
The Lewis concept of acidity designates acids as electron pair acceptors, and bases as electron pair donors. For the reaction:
clearly the bromide ion is the base, the electron donor, and aluminum, the acid, the electron-pair acceptor. How would you designate the reaction of
