NCERT Exercise 4.26 - Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Question: Is there a hybridisation change of B and N in the shown reaction?

Answer: Yes. In the Lewis acid-base adduct H3B<-NH3, B changes from sp2 to sp3; N remains sp3, changing from one lone pair plus three bonds to four sigma bonds.

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