Halogens Flashcards
Give the colour of fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine at room temperature and pressure.
Fluorine - Yellow gas
Chlorine - Yellow-Green gas
Bromine - Red-Brown liquid (vapour when heated)
Iodine - Grey-Black solid (purple vapour when heated)
What is the trend in m.p/b.p down the halogens and why?
Increased due to increased Van der Waals
What is the trend in electronegativity, first ionisation energy and atomic radius.
Decreases - 1st I.E and electronegativity
Increases - Atomic radius
Outer electrons are further form the nucleus.
What are the halogens?
Non-polar simple covalent molecules
What happens to the solubility of the halogens down the group?
Decreases down the group until iodine which is virtually insoluble in water.
What do all of the halogens dissolve in?
Non-polar solvents such as hexane because like dissolves like (The halogens are non-polar)
Give the colour of the solution Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine make with water.
Chlorine - Green solution
Bromine - Yellow solution
Iodine - virtually insoluble but any solution is Brown
Give the colour of the solution Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine make with hexane.
Chlorine - Colourless solution
Bromine - Red solution
Iodine - Purple solution
Give the reaction of the halogens with water and what are they an example of?
Cl2 + H2O → HOCl + HCl
This is an example of a disproportionation reaction.
Write the equation and ionic equation for chlorine and cold dilute sodium hydroxide solution
2NaOH + Cl2→ NaCl + NaClO + H2O
2OH- + Cl2 → Cl- + ClO- + H2O
What is the name of NaClO
Sodium Hypochlorite or Sodium Chlorate (1) because it contains the Chlorate(1) ion ClO-
Write the equation and ionic equation for Chlorine and hot concentrated sodium hydroxide solution.
3Cl2 + 6NaOH → 5NaCl + NaClO3 + 3H2O
6OH- + 3Cl2 → 5Cl- + ClO3- + 3H2O
What is the name of NaClO3
Sodium Chlorate (V) because it contains the chlorate (V) ion.
In what ways do Iodine and bromine react with both hot concentrated and cold dilute NaOH?
Bromine reacts in the same was as chlorine but Iodine does not react with cold dilute NaOH only hot concentrated NaOH.
What is the observations for the above reactions with chlorine?
The yellow-green gas dissolves to form a colourless solution.
Describe the oxidising ability of the halogens.
Oxidising ability decreases as atomic number increases.
Oxidising agents cause another species to lose electrons it itself gaining electrons and becoming reduced.
Oxidising agents readily accept electrons
The ease at which an oxidising agent gains electrons is a measure of how effective an oxidising agent it is.
The halogens gain electrons in their outer layer in order to complete their energy level.
The outer electrons are closer to the nucleus in fluorine
The electron fluorine gains is more attracted to the nucleus because it is closer then chlorine.
There is more shielding down the group therefore attraction to the nucleus is not as strong
Which of the halogens will displace which?
Fluorine will displace all other halides in solution.
Chlorine can displace Br and I in solution
Br can displace I
I can displace none except Astatine