Consider the molecule BF 3 . (a) What is the electron configuration of an isolated B atom?

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Consider the molecule BF3

(a) What is the electron configuration of an isolated B atom? 

(b) What is the electron configuration of an isolated F atom? 

(c) What hybrid orbitals should be constructed on the B atom to make the B–F bonds in BF3

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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0134414232

14th Edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, H. LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew Stoltzfus

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