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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

Why FeCl3 is not used in place of ZnCl2 , as it is also a Lewis acid .

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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9 Years ago
A Lewis corrosive is a compound animal groups that responds with a Lewis base to shape a Lewis adduct. A Lewis base, then, is any species that gives an unshared electron match to a Lewis corrosive to frame a Lewis adduct. 
FeCl3 is a Lewis corrosive since it can acknowledge an electron combine from a Lewis base. , yet it has high soundness on account of 3 cl appended to it, where as zncl2 has just 2 cl connected in this way decreasing the security and winding up plainly more helpless against acknowledge electrons.

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