Inorganic nonaqueous solvent: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 12:58, 26 November 2005

An inorganic nonaqueous solvent is a solvent other than water, that is not an organic compound. Common examples are liquid ammonia and liquid sulfur dioxide. These solvents are used industrially and in chemistry studies. These solvents are used for reactions that cannot occur in aqueous solutions.

Liquid ammonia has acid-base chemistry much like water. Ionic amides are strong bases, and many acids which are weak in water are strong in liquid ammonia. Acids which are dissociated in liquid ammonia are often referred to as solutions of ammonium salts, even though ionized acids in aqueous solution are generally not referred to as solutions of hydronium salts. Dispite this difference in nomenclature, there is nothing fundamentally different between acids in water and acids in ammonia.

This chemistry-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 An ''inorganic nonaqueous solvent'' is a [[solvent]] other than water, that is not an [[organic compound]]. Common examples are liquid [[ammonia]] and liquid [[sulfur dioxide]]. These solvents are used industrially and in chemistry studies. These solvents are used for reactions that cannot occur in aqueous solutions.
-Liquid ammonia has [[acid]]-[[base]] chemistry much like water. Ionic [[amide]]s are strong bases, and many acids which are weak in water are strong in liquid ammonia. Acids which are dissociated in liquid ammonia are often referred to as solutions of ammonium salts, even though ionized acids in aqueous solution are generally not referred to as solutions of hydronium salts. This nomenclature difference is complete nonsense, as there is nothing fundamentally different between acids in water and acids in ammonia.
+Liquid ammonia has [[acid]]-[[base]] chemistry much like water. Ionic [[amide]]s are strong bases, and many acids which are weak in water are strong in liquid ammonia. Acids which are dissociated in liquid ammonia are often referred to as solutions of [[ammonium]] salts, even though ionized acids in aqueous solution are generally not referred to as solutions of [[hydronium]] salts. Dispite this difference in nomenclature, there is nothing fundamentally different between acids in water and acids in ammonia.
 {{chem-stub}}