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how is AlCl4 formed ................??????????????????????

how is AlCl4 formed ................??????????????????????

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Pawan Prajapati
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3 years ago
Answer :

Aluminium forms aluminium trichloride (AlCl3). It has vacant p-orbital. It functions as Lewis acid and acts as an electron-pair acceptor. Now, chloride ion is a Lewis base and hence can donate electrons to AlCl3 to form AlCl4-.
AlCl3 + Cl- →
AlCl4-
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