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In a planar carbocation, the vacant orbital on the cationic carbon is:

  1. Aa orbital
  2. Ban unhybridised orbital perpendicular to the plane of the three sigma bonds
  3. Can orbital pointing to a corner of a tetrahedron
  4. Dan orbital lying in the molecular plane

Answer: B

The three sigma bonds use orbitals in one plane. The remaining orbital is empty and lies perpendicular to that plane, which is where a nucleophile attacks.
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