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The nitrogen-centered highest occupied molecular orbital of ammonia supplies a lone pair; planar borane has an empty out-of-plane $p$-derived lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. Approach along this acceptor axis gives constructive orbital overlap and donation of the nitrogen pair into the boron-centered acceptor. The resulting N-to-B coordinate covalent bond forms the ammonia borane adduct.

The occupied molecular orbital formed by this interaction is bonding, while the corresponding antibonding combination remains empty. Borane pyramidalizes as coordination increases from three to four. Ammonia can use its existing outward-pointing lone pair; its inversion to the planar transition geometry is not a prerequisite. The Lewis base and Lewis acid descriptions summarize the donor and acceptor roles, while the frontier molecular orbitals explain their directional interaction.

Work with $M=(H-\alpha I)/\beta$. Its nearest-neighbour ring entries are $1$, and its diagonal entries are $1$ on the nitrogen sites and $0$ on the carbon sites. Because $M$ commutes with each molecular symmetry operation, it only mixes symmetry-adapted linear combinations with the same irreducible representation.

In the bases $(N_{+},C_0)$ and $(N_{-},C_y)$, the two nontrivial matrix blocks areTheir characteristic polynomials are $(1-\lambda {)}^2-2$ and ${\lambda }^2-3$. The remaining single-function blocks are $M_{B_{2g}}=1$ and $M_{A_u}=-1$. Thus, ordered from lowest to highest physical energy because $\beta <0$, the molecular orbitals areAll six levels are nondegenerate in this parametrization. The right-hand ladder of the diagram in part (ii) shows these levels and occupations. The occupied $B_{2g}$ level is the highest occupied molecular orbital, and the unoccupied $B_{1u}$ level immediately above it is the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital.

The extra electron occupies the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the neutral molecule, the $B_{3g}$ orbital at the middle root ${\lambda }_L=0.25410169\dots$ of ${\lambda }^3-4\lambda +1=0$. WriteThe first and third rows of the $B_{3g}$ block giveChoosing the overall phase so that site 1 is positive gives $(a,b,c)\simeq (0.664623,-0.495741,-0.559033)$. In the original site order,The squared coefficients sum to one. Within this fixed-orbital Hückel orbital charge density approximation, the added electron contributes site populationsThus the oxygen sites $\boxed{1\text{ and }8}$ receive the largest added negative charge, each receiving an increment of approximately $-0.221e$. Including the four doubly occupied neutral orbitals gives an anion $\pi$ population of about $1.621$ on each oxygen, $0.870$ on sites 2 and 7, and $1.005$ on each remaining carbon. Thus oxygen also has the largest total $\pi$ population in this model. A coefficient's sign is an orbital phase, not the sign of its electric charge. Predicting an actual charge density would additionally require orbital relaxation and a population-analysis convention; the stated result is the requested orbital model.