Why is the chloride ion not bonded to the pyridinium ion in pyridinium chloride?

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anor277
Feb 23, 2018

Because pyridinium chloride is an acid base pair....

Explanation:

And we can see this from the synthesis reaction...

#C_6H_5N(aq) + HCl(aq)rarr C_6H_5NH^(+)""^(-)Cl(aq)#

And so here chloride is the counterion of the pyridinium CATION...the interaction is ionic...and the nitrogen, as a cation, is quaternized....

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