Doesn't anyone else find BF3 annoying?

[DJ_DEnM]

I mean, seriously, why would it decide to ignore the octet rule and become stable with 7 electrons fue to the partial charge? I mean, come on!

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[cookyy2k]

I mean, seriously, why would it decide to ignore the octet rule and become stable with 7 electrons fue to the partial charge? I mean, come on!

If you're referring to the requirement of 8 outer shell electrons for a non chemically reactive substance I'm sorry to tell you but the 8 outer shell thing is a simplification. Electrons have 4 quantum values; n (shell number), l (sub-shell), m (orbit) and s (spin). n can be any positive integer, l is positive integers upto n-1, m is integers between -l and l, and s is either + or - 1/2.

Thanks to electrons being fermions they must obey pauli exclusion meaning no two electrons in a system may have the same quantum number. The n value gives the shell number so in the case of 2 the limit is indeed 8, but in say 3 that number increases again.