From the MO Diagrams are Molecules A and B an Acid or Base? can you explain why

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From the MO Diagrams are Molecules A and B an Acid or Base? can you explain why its and acid or why its a base? As well Is molecule A, a Hard or Soft lewis Acid/base and is molecule B, a Hard or soft Lewis acid/base? Can you explain why they are either hard or soft?

4. Molecular orbital diagrams for two molecules A and B are shown below along with simplified pictures of their frontier orbitals. Use the diagrams to answer the following questions. (a) Assign each molecule, A and B as a Lewis acid or a Lewis base. Succinctly

Explanation / Answer

A Lewis acid, is any species that reacts with a Lewis Base (takes a pair of electrons to form a Lewis acid)

A Lewis base, then, is any species that donates a pair of electrons to a Lewis acid

For Hard/Soft:

hard implies small and nonpolarizable and soft indicates larger atoms that are more polarizable.

Lewis Base: A

Lewis Acid: B

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