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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

The Usanovich Acid- Base Concept

 According to this concept  acids are any chemical species which react with bases and gives cations or accept anions or electrons.

Similarly Bases are a chemical species which react with acids and gives anions or electrons or cations

Hard and Soft  acids and bases:


Lux- Flood Acid-Base Concept:

The Lux-Flood concept is given by Lux in 1929 and supported by Flood in 1947. Lux-Flood concept is based on oxide ion acceptor and donor tendency.

Lux-Flood bases:  According to this concept bases are those species which can donate oxide ions examples.

Lux-Flood Acids:  According to this concept Acids are those species which can accept oxide ions.

Chemical Reactions according Lewis acid-base concept:

Acid-base reaction in term Lux-Flood acid and base is a specific reactions in which oxide ions are mainly use in molten form or at high temperature.

Amphoteric Nature of Oxides as per Lux-Flood Concept:

Acidic Nature of Xenon fluoride as per Lux-Flood Concept:

According to Lux –Flood concept Xenon fluorides accept oxide ions from other compounds and insert fluorides ions in its place.

For examples

The Order of decreasing Lux-Flood acidity of Xenon Fluorides is given as:

Limitations of Lux-Flood Acid –base Concept:

(1) It is dealing with anhydrous reaction in fused molten oxides and  other high temperature reactions found in metallurgy and ceramics.

(2) When Lux-Flood, acidic and basic of oxide react with water gives corresponding acid and base.

Limitations of Lux-Flood Acid –base Concept:

(1) Base must contain oxide ion and acid must have accept oxide ions.

(2)It fails to explain reaction without  metal ions

The Solvent system(Self or Auto Ionization of Solvents)

The most common concept of acids and bases is due to Cady and Elsey. Most of the solvents undergo auto-ionization and form cation and anions like water, regardless it contains protons or not for examples; H2O, NH3, H2SO4, HNO3, POCl3, BrF3, N2O4, NOCl, CH3COOH,


  1. Solvolysis in liquid N2O4:
  2. Hydrolysis reactions:
  3. Solvolysis in liquid NH3 (Ammonolysis):
  4. Auto ionization of anhydrous Sulphuric acid:
  5. Solvolysis in Liquid SO3:
  6. Solvolysis in Liquid HF:

 Related Questions: 

Why aqueous solution of AlCl3 is acidic in nature ?

What happen when aq AlCl3 react with Acid or Base?

Although anhydrous aluminium chloride is covalent but its aqueous solution is ionic in nature. Why?

Why BF3 do not exist as dimer?. Explain.

Why B-F bond length in BF3 is shorter (130 pm) than B-F bond Iength in BF4- (143 pm)?. Explain.

B-F bond length in BF3 is shorter than B-F bond length in (BF4)- why?

When B2H6 is allowed to react with following Lewis bases, then how may given Lewis base form adduct through symmetrical Cleavage of B2H6.

What is product of reaction between diborane (B2H6) and ammmonia (NH3)?

Why methylation of Diborane (B2H6) replace four hydrogen only ?

What is Use of Boric Acid?

What is use of Orthoboric acids?

What is basicity of "Boric acid" ?

Why Boric acid exist in solid state ?

What is structure of solid Ortho Boric acid ?

What is effect of heat on Borax?

What is the structure of trimetaboric acid and trimetaborate ion?

What is the Sodium per borate ,give the structure and its uses?

Why aqueous solution of borax reacts with two moles of acids ?

What is the molecular formula of Borax ?

Why Boric acid become strong acid in the presence of cis 1,2-diol or 1,3-diol ?

Why Borazine is more reactive than benzene towards Electrophic Aromatic substitution reactions ?

Why Borazine (B3N3H6) is also known as inorganic benzene ?.

Four-center two-electron bond (4C-2e Bond): Structure of AlCl3:


Monday, December 28, 2020

Why Bond length of O-O is greater in H2O2 than O2F2?

Electronegativity of F is much more than hydrogen and also hybridization of oxygen atoms in of H2O2 and O2F2 both have (sp3) same . According bent’s rule those hybrid orbitals containing flourine atom have less % s-characterand more p-character while other orbitals have more % s-character and less % s-character hence O-O bond length in O2F2 is shorter thane H2O2.

Related Questions:

What is Bent’s rule of hybridization?

Which of the following compound have longest (S=O)bond length , O=SF2, O=SCl2, O=SBr2.





What is Bent’s rule of hybridization?

According to the bent's rule the more electronegative atom not only prefer to stay in that Hybride orbital which having less  % S character (more p-character) but it also decreases % S-character and increases % P-character in its attached orbital from the central atom.


On increasing % s character in hybrid orbital , the bond length  decreases while bond angle increases.

For example:C-H bond of CH4 is longer than C-H bond of floromethan (CH3F) because In CH4 all the Sp3 hybrid orbitals are equal in term of  s-% character(25%) and % p-charater(75%)  so that all C-H bond in CH4  are equal while in case of CH3F the hybrid orbital has more p-character (more than 75%) and less s-character (less then 25%) containg fluorine atom and other hybrid orbitals have less p-character (less than75%) and more s-character (more than 25%) hence C-H bond length of CH3F decreases.

EXCEPTIONS OF BENT’S RULE:

 (1): Bent’s rule is applicable in those molecules where central atoms are same and they are also in same Hybridization.

For example N-N bond length cannot be compared in N2H4 and N2O4 using Bent rule.

(2): Bent’s rule violets in those molecules where steric factor’s plays dominating rule.

Related Questions:

(1) What is Bent’s rule of hybridization?

(2) Which of the following compound have longest (S=O)bond length , O=SF2,  O=SCl2, O=SBr2.