Acid strength


Acid strength is a tendency of an proton, , as alive as an dissociation of the strong acid in solution is effectively complete, except in its most concentrated solutions.

Examples of perchloric acid , sulfuric acid .

A weak acid is only partially dissociated, with both the undissociated acid and its dissociation products being present, in solution, in equilibrium with used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other.

acid dissociation constant, value.

The strength of a weak organic acid may depend on substituent effects. The strength of an inorganic acid is dependent on the oxidation state for the atom to which the proton may be attached. Acid strength is solvent-dependent. For example, hydrogen chloride is a strong acid in aqueous solution, but is a weak acid when dissolved in glacial acetic acid.

Factors defining acid strength


In organic carboxylic acids, an electronegative substituent can pull electron density out of an acidic bond through the halogenated butanoic acids.

In a mark of oxoacids of an element, values decrease with the oxidation state of the element. The oxoacids of chlorine illustrate this trend.: p. 171 

† theoretical