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PCl5 exists but NCl5 does not because : 

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a

Nitrogen bas no vacant 2d-orbitals

b

NCl5  is unstable

c

Nitrogen atom is much smaller than P

d

Nitrogen is highly inert

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

PCl5 forms five bonds by using the d-orbitals to "expand the octet" and have more places to put bonding pairs of electrons.NCl5  does not exist because there are no d-orbitals in the second energy level. Therefore there is no way to arrange five pairs of bonding electrons around a nitrogen atom.

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