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a
NCl5 is unstable
b
Nitrogen has no vacant orbitals
c
Nitrogen atom is much smaller
d
Nitrogen is highly inert
answer is B.
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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.