# electron deficiency

> species that violate the octet rule because they have too few valence electrons and species that happen to follow the octet rule but have electron-acceptor properties, forming donor-acceptor charge-transfer salts

**Wikidata**: [Q903233](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q903233)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_deficiency)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/electron-deficiency


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)