chemical bonding

In bf3 back bonding , does the p pi p pi back bond actually form between only one fluorine and the central boron or each fluorine and boron? If it's the latter how is this possible and p orbital will be already occupied in one fluorine back bonding If it's the former why not only one bf3 bond gets stronger and others normal
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Real potato
Real potato5mo ago
bari bari ek ek fluorine k sath backbond banta hai
itsav23
itsav235mo ago
In BF3, the back bonding happens between the boron atom and each fluorine atom....not just one. The thing is, fluorine has lone pairs in its 2p orbitals and boron has an empty 2p orbital because it doesn't have a complete octet. So theres some overlap between the filled 2p orbital of fluorine and the empty 2p orbital of boron.
hardcoreisdead
hardcoreisdeadOP5mo ago
acha matlab change karta rehta hai with time islie we delocalize it and show dotted line as bonds representing back bonds
Real potato
Real potato5mo ago
Yeah Compound resonance show krta hai islie wo dotted line se show kr dete hai
hardcoreisdead
hardcoreisdeadOP5mo ago
alright got it, thanx +solved @Real potato
iTeachChem
iTeachChem5mo ago
+solved @Real potato
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