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Why Boron trichloxide is monomer and aluminium trichloxide is dimer

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Answer: The bond length and atomic size of boron in BCl3 are smaller than in AlCl3 so this leads to interatomic repulsion so BCl3 could not accept another BCl3 via a dative bond because it leads to more repulsion and finally breaking of dimer.

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