A carbocation is an example of a(an) . Does a carbocation accept a pair of electrons, or does it donate a pair of electrons? A. Electrophile. The carbocation accepts a pair of electrons.
B. Nucleophile. The carbocation accepts a pair of electrons.
C. Electrophile. The carbocation donates a pair of electrons.
D. Nucleophile. The carbocation donates a pair of electrons.

Option A. The carbocation accepts a pair of electrons.

Explanation:

A carbocation is defined as a positively charged carbon, which is bound to 3 substituents. Since it has no electrons  nonbonding, it only has six electrons in its valence shell. With only six electrons in its valence shell, a carbocation is a powerful electrophile (and Lewis acid) and can react with any nucleophile that is found.

Carbocations are proposed as intermediates in many  organic reactions. They also work like free radicals, which are electron-deficient species.

Same as free radicals, the carbocations are stabilized by alkyl substituents.

explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is and electronic configuration of phosphorous is .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.  

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.