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hariharan venkatasu
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Zinc chloride is Electrophilic and so acts as a Lewis acid.This characteristic is due to it's ability to accept electrons to it's 4 d orbital.My question is why it receives electrons to it's 4 d orbital when 4 p remain empty( according to Aufbau diagram)?Are there any other d block element capable of accepting electrons to 4 d orbital leaving 4 p and 5 s orbitals ?