Nitrate and water are not sufficiently basic to deprotonate h2bdc, yet this reaction works well. how else could bdc be deprotonated to drive this reaction forward? (hint: one of the chemicals that is added to the vial is not thermally stable)

answer: option (b) is the correct answer.

explanation:

a covalent bond is formed by sharing of electrons. whereas polarity arises due to difference in electronegativity of two atoms.

therefore, more is the electronegativity of an atom which combines with the titanium, more readily it will induce a partial positive and negative charge.

thus, out of the given options fluorine is most electronegative and has an incomplete octet. therefore, it will readily combine with titanium to share the electrons and complete its octet.  

c8h10 is your answerr