Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Structure of boron triflouride?

BF3 has 24 valence electrons, and all 3 bonds are single bonds. This creates only 6 valence electrons on boron. I know that this is possible, but why can't there be a double bond between one of the flourine atoms and the boron atom? This still has 24 valence electrons, and then all 4 atoms follow the octet rule.

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