An acid is an electron-pair acceptor; a base is an electron-pair donor. The most general of the three acid-base theories (G.N. Lewis 1923). Subsumes Brønsted-Lowry (a proton is the simplest Lewis acid) and extends to nonprotonic systems:…
An acid is an electron-pair acceptor; a base is an electron-pair donor. The most general of the three acid-base theories (G.N. Lewis 1923). Subsumes Brønsted-Lowry (a proton is the simplest Lewis acid) and extends to nonprotonic systems:…