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how can we sa that clf3 has cordinatebonds......................................................

how can we sa that  clf3 has cordinatebonds......................................................

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Pooja
askIITians Faculty 477 Points
5 years ago
Dear Student,
If you see the structure of ClF3, it has two lone pairs and three bond pairs.
Trigonal bipyramidal geometry.
The covalent bond is formed by the one electron from Cl and one from F. So, it has no coordinate bond.

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