Oxoacids of chlorine

Chlorous acid is the least stable of the oxoacids of chlorine it cannot be isolated but is known in dilute aqueous solution. HOBrO and HOIO are even less stable, and, if they exist at all, have only a fleeting presence in aqueous solutions. Several chlorites have been isolated and NaC102 is sufficiently stable to be manufactured as an article of commerce on the kilotonne pa scale. Little reliable information is available on bromites and still less is established for iodites which are essentially non-existent. 

The interhalogens have properties intermediate between those of the constituent halogens. Nonmetals form covalent halides metals tend to form ionic halides. The oxoacids of chlorine are all oxidizing agents both acidity and oxidizing strength of oxoacids increase as the oxidation number of the halogen increases. 

For oxoacids that contain the same atom Y but different numbers of oxygen atoms, acid strength increases as the oxidation number of Y increases. The oxidation number of Y increases, in turn, as the number of oxygen atoms increases. This effect is illustrated by the oxoacids of chlorine ... 

FIGURE 15.6 Lewis structures of the oxoacids of chlorine. The oxidation number of the Cl atom is shown in parentheses. For simplicity, the formal charges have been omitted. Note that although hypochlorous acid is written as HCIO, the H atom is bonded to the O atom. 

Oxoacids of chlorine Oxoacids of bromine Oxoacids of iodine ... 

The kinetics of this last reaction have been studied as a function of pH. Another reaction in the complex series of interactions among the oxoacids of chlorine, the disproportionation of chlorine dioxide to chlorate and chlorite, follows the rate law below, with E - 10.8 kcal mol ... 

For a series of oxoacids, (HO) YO , the acid strength increases with n, the number of O atoms bonded to Y (excluding O atoms in OH groups). The oxoacids of chlorine provide an example ... 

Oxoacids of Chlorine The halogens form a variety of oxoacids (Table 22.10). Figure 22.50 shows the structures of the chlorine oxoacids. The acidic character of these... 

C 5 Sc, Y, La to Lu Oxide Chlorides, Hydroxide Chlorides, Salts of Oxoacids of Chlorine, and Alkali Chlorometallates - 1977... 

Shapes of the oxoacids of chlorine and the electrostatic potential maps of the corresponding anions... 

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