If the species having same number of total electron present in the molecule called isoelectronic species.
To understand isoelectronic species we take a example = we have two molecules CH3- ion (methyl anion) and NH3 (ammonia)
(1) CH3- : we know that carbon has 6 electron (atomic no. = 6) in all the shells and hydrogen (atomic no. =1) having one electron in all the shells.
Here three hydrogen atom attached with carbon. So the total electron of hydrogen are three.
In CH3- ion there is one negative charge, it means carbon take one electron from other species.
: carbon has 7 electron
Total electron in CH3- species are =
6+3+1 = 10 electron
(2) NH3 - we know that in NH3 molecule nitrogen (atomic no =7) has 7 electron in all the shells (not valence shell).
And hydrogen attached with nitrogen are three.
So the total electron present in ammonia molecule are =7+3 =10electron
(there is no positive or negative charge on ammmonia molecule)
Note= if molecule has contain positive charge then we subtract that positive charge from total no. of electron.
Therefore : both molecule CH3- and NH3 has 10 electron.
Both molecule are isoelectronic.

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