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Grade 12th passPhysical Chemistry

Why back bonding is not possible in trimethylamine?

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8 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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8 Years ago
for back bonding there should be vacency in the atom like d orbitals .
Nitrogen doesn’t have d orbital to accommodate a pair of electrons so backbonding is not possible.