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https://edugen.wileyplus.com/edugen/student/maintr.uni Klein, Organic Chemistry, 2e ractice Assignment Gradebook ORION Downloadable eTextbook ignment Testbank, Question 111 Which of the following compounds is not a Lewis acid? O FeCl3 CH3CH2* Ph3P O none of these LINK TO TEXT 0 on By accessing this Question Assistance, you will learn while you earn points based or on ion tion tion stion ent I Privacy Policy 1 2000-2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A Division of John Wiley &S;

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Lewis acid is any substance that can accept a pair of nonbonding electrons.

so,PPh3 cant accept nonbonding electrons so PPh3 is not a lewis acid.PPh3 is a weak base.PPh3 has a lone pair of electron so it can donate the electron pairs to work as a base.

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