Question A: 

What is your understanding of hypervalence? (cross ref: J. Chem. Educ.,

2007, 84, 783)

Hypervalence is a phenomenon where elements in the third row and below have access to d-orbitals in
which they can place the extra electrons needed to form more than four bonds, breaking the octet rule.
There are very few elements that obey the octet rule. As they say, rules are meant to be broken. It is still
taught because it works for predicting the shape of covalently bonded molecules with smaller nonmetal
atoms.