Lewis acids and bases
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A Lewis acid is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct. A Lewis base, then, is any species that has a
Diagram of some Lewis bases (left) and acids (right)
Gilbert N. Lewis
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Gilbert Newton Lewis was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Lewis was best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his
Lewis acids and bases
…will form a dative bond with the empty orbital of Me3B to form an adduct NH3•BMe3. Lewis acids and bases are named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis. The terms nucleophile and electrophile are sometimes interchangeable with Lewis base and Lewis acid, respectively. These terms, especially their…
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Lewis' cubical atoms (as drawn in 1902)