What's the product of acetic acid plus copper?

Question

Explain how you got the answer.
--the formula of acetic acid and blah blah blah.
Yep, thanks.

Answer 1

Ethanoic acid has one H atom that can be lost as an H+ ion, leaving a single negative ion called ethanoate (or acetate).
Copper forms a 2+ ion, so will need two ethanoate ions to combine with it.

So the eventual formula is Cu(CH3COO)2.

Copper metal does not react directly with the acid, by the way. I assume the question you were really asking is: what is the formula of copper ethanoate (acetate)?

Answer 2

Lancenigo di Villorba (TV), Italy

I executed many and many times this simple experiment.
If you want repeate it, you can follow this instructions.

YOUR DETAILS
Acetic acid is a common organic acid, it belongs to carboxylic acids. Its molecular stucture is the following :

CH3-C=O
.........|
........OH

Since you desire know something about its copper's salt, I sent you the "chemical formula" of the latter, e.g. (CH3COO)2Cu or copper(II) acetate.

YOUR EXPERIMENT
You bring a close glass-vessel.
You open the vessel for introducing many small metalic copper pieces and you put a good amount of acetic acid's aqueous solutions or house-hold vinegar.
WARNING!! If you desire a good experiment's evolution, you must fill NOT the vessel and you must clean the copper pieces just to bright the metalic surfaces.
Now, you let open the vessel at room temperature.

YOUR REMARKS
Lately, day par days the liquid rise its copper ions containt.
Many days later, you can note a pale greenish coloration.
Some months later, you can note a strong green hue.
Furthermore, the coloration show a stronger hue if you employed vinegar unless acetic acid's solution : vinegar containts other organic acids than acetic one lonely.
YOU SEEN IT!!
COPPER MAY UNDERGO CORROSION IN ACETIC MEDIA!!

HOW DO IT HAPPENS?
In the electrochemical series, copper result of one of chemical elements more noble than hydrogen.
So, you might state that not-oxidizing acidic solutions may not attacks copper bodies.
I remember you that air's oxygen also may acts as an oxidizing.
Thus, acidic media may permit oxygen's action.
If you permit the contact between acidic media and the air, you obtain a LATE BUT POSSIBLE corrosion's phenomena of copper bodies.

I hope this helps you.

Answer 3

Acetic acid: C2H3O2- Copper: Cu You would have to know what the charge on the copper was to know how they would combine. For example if the copper was 2+, it would be called copper(II) acetate with the formula Cu(C2H3O2)2.

Answer 4

when an acid and a metal react hydrogen gas will evolve and a salt will form

Answer 5

C2H4O2 + Cu --> ... go do the research yourself...read your textbook!