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Grade 12IIT JEE Entrance Exam

The stability of +5 oxidation state decrease down the group 15.while +3 state increase why? Also explain inert pair effect.

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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6 Years ago
In group 15, the stability of the +5 oxidation state decreases from P to Bi. Because neutral covalent compounds of the trivalent group 15 elements have a lone pair of electrons on the central atom, they tend to be Lewis bases.
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The inert pair effect is the tendency of the two electrons in the outermost atomic s-orbital to remain unshared in compounds of post-transition metals. ... The term "inert pair" was first proposed by Nevil Sidgwick