Aaluminum bromideBbromide ionCsodium ionDNone are Lewis acids
Fog Bound I was in Southampton last week went to the boat show, thick fog couldn’t see hand in front of my face any way the car broke down, managed to get it parked up and thought I’ll try and get a lift into town try and sort something out, I started thumbing and as luck would have it a car pulled up so I jumped inAs we moved off, I said “thanks mate you’ve saved my life my car broke down I’ve got to get back to London tonight so I’m hoping there will be a garage in town to help me out”, well I’m peering out the window can’t see a thing so I said I “don’t know how you are managing it’s a right pea souper” and as I said it I turned to look at the driver …………………there was no driver I thought …… me there’s no …king driver! what’s going on, I’m feeling a bit panicky to say the least, just as we came to a stop at some traffic lights, So I lept out and saw someone standing on the kerb, so I said to him “don’t get in there mate there’s something wrong with that car!!” …………………he said “You’re telling me mate I’ve been pushing that ….king thing for four miles!! “ Regards Alan
A is the correct answer the reaction will produce sodium tetrabromoaluminate, which can also be called sodium aluminum bromide and will have the formula of NaAlBr4 The Br on NaBr will act as a Lewis base and will donate its electron pair into the empty p-orbital on Al and make the AlBr4- anionThe Al will be the Lewis acid accepting the lone pair from the Br.
