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Monday, December 30, 2019

What is the difference between the structure of AlCl3 and diborane?

The hydrogen bridged dimer B2H6 contains two three centre (3C-2e bond), two electron bonds, A three-centre bond uses two electron to link three atoms, and  four two centre, two electron bond (2C-2e). 3C-2e bridge bond is perpendicular to plane in which 2C-2e bond present.
In contrast the bridge bonding in Al2Cl6 contains two three centre (3C-4e bond), four electron bonds  which can be described in terms of electron pair bond in which a chlorine atom bonded to one aluminium atom act as a Lewis base by donating a lone pair of electrons to the aluminium atom which acts as a Lewis acid.

Related Questions: 

(1) Why aqueous solution of AlCl3 is acidic in nature ?

(2) What happen when aq AlCl3 react with Acid or Base?

(3) Although anhydrous aluminium chloride is covalent but its aqueous solution is ionic in nature. Why?

(4) Why BF3 do not exist as dimer?. Explain.

(5) Why B-F bond length in BF3 is shorter (130 pm) than B-F bond Iength in BF4- (143 pm)?. Explain.

(6) B-F bond length in BF3 is shorter than B-F bond length in (BF4)- why?

(7) When B2H6 is allowed to react with following Lewis bases, then how may given Lewis base form adduct through symmetrical Cleavage of B2H6.

(8) What is product of reaction between diborane (B2H6) and ammmonia (NH3)?

(9) Why methylation of Diborane (B2H6) replace four hydrogen only ?

(10) What is Use of Boric Acid?

(11) What is use of Orthoboric acids?

(12) What is basicity of "Boric acid" ?

(13) Why Boric acid exist in solid state ?

(14) What is structure of solid Ortho Boric acid ?

(15) What is effect of heat on Borax?

(16) What is the structure of trimetaboric acid and trimetaborate ion?

(17) What is the Sodium per borate ,give the structure and its uses?

(18) Why aqueous solution of borax reacts with two moles of acids ?

(19) What is the molecular formula of Borax ?

(20) Why Boric acid become strong acid in the presence of cis 1,2-diol or 1,3-diol ?

(21) Why Borazine is more reactive than benzene towards Electrophic Aromatic substitution reactions ?

(22) Why Borazine (B3N3H6) is also known as inorganic benzene ?.

(23) Four-center two-electron bond (4C-2e Bond): Structure of AlCl3:

(24) What is the difference between the structure of AlCl3 and diborane?

3 comments:

  1. Could u show AlCl3 structure? Too

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    1. https://www.chemzipper.com/2019/12/four-center-two-electron-bond-4c-2e.html?m=1

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