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Q. Which species does not exist?

JIPMERJIPMER 2000

Solution:

$ CCl_{6}^{2-} $ does not exist. The reason is that carbon has no d-orbital, hence it cannot combine with 6 chlorine-atoms. All others (Si, Ge and Al) have d-orbital, hence form the given ions.