I always get confused when it comes to naming acids and writing their formulas. If you could please explain how to name acids and write their formulas that would be really appreciated. Thanks.
2007-08-08 10:32:07 · 2 answers · asked by Jade 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Enter the acid trade name in the search. If you teacher disagrees with the result, most likely, your teacher is wrong and IUPAC is right.
2007-08-08 10:37:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The strong mineral acids are hydrofluoric (no carping please), hydrochloric, hydrobromic, and hydriodic: HF, HCl, HBr, HI.
Then there are sulfuric acid, H2SO4, sulfurous acid, H2SO3, nitric acid, HNO3, and nitrous acid, HNO2. Note that the higher oxidation state of S or N takes the name -ic, while the lower oxidation state takes -ous.
It gets worse with the halogen acids. (Many of them don't even exist.) HClO is hypochlorous acid, HClO2 is chlorous acid, HClO2 is chloric acid, and HClO4 is perchloric acid. And so on with the oxyacids of bromine and iodine. Acids of fluorine, other than HF, exist only in the imagination.
H3PO4 is phosphoric acid, H3PO3 is phosphorous acid, H4P2O7 is pyrophosphoric acid (important in biochemistry), HPO2 is hypophosphorous acid (important in organic synthesis
2007-08-08 17:45:40 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋