Question

Aluminium hydride is an electron deficient hydride.

(a) true

(b) false

This question was posed to me in homework.

This is a very interesting question from Hydrogen in section Hydrogen of Chemistry – Class 11

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) true

To explain: Aluminium hydride is a molecular hydride, because it does not have a required number of electrons to form the normal covalent bonds. So, aluminium hydride is also called as an electron-deficient hydride, therefore the above statement is true.