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ChemistryChemical Bonding and Molecular StructureJEE Main

Maximum number of atoms which can be attached to an N-atom is

Answer: 4

Solution

Nitrogen (period 2) has no accessible -orbitals and so cannot expand its octet; its maximum covalence/coordination number is 4 — one ordinary covalent bond

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