What are the oxidation numbers of $S O_{2}$ $SO_2$ , $S O_{3}$ $SO_3$ , $P_{2} O_{3}$ $P_2O_3$ , and $P_{2} O_{5}$ $P_2O_5$ ? What is the oxidation number of hydrogen peroxide?

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What are the oxidation numbers of $S O_{2}$ $SO_2$ , $S O_{3}$ $SO_3$ , $P_{2} O_{3}$ $P_2O_3$ , and $P_{2} O_{5}$ $P_2O_5$ ? What is the oxidation number of hydrogen peroxide?

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Answer 1 · 2017-09-13T07:42:35

Well, we can assign oxidation numbers........

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And for oxides, the oxygen state of the oxygen is necessarily $- I I$ $-II$ .. And we assign the oxidation state of the heteroatom on this basis....

$S O_{2}$ $SO_2$ , we gots $S (+ I V)$ $S(+IV)$ ;

$S O_{3}$ $SO_3$ , we gots $S (+ V I)$ $S(+VI)$ ;

$P_{2} O_{3}$ $P_2O_3$ , we gots $P (+ I I I)$ $P(+III)$ ;

And for $P_{2} O_{5}$ $P_2O_5$ , we gots $P (+ V)$ $P(+V)$ ......

Sometimes we consider a $peroxide$ $"peroxide"$ , i.e. a $O - O$ $O-O$ linkage; here the electrons in the (weak) $O - O$ $O-O$ bond are assigned to each element (because the oxygens HAVE EQUAL electronegativity) to give say the hydroperoxyl radical:

$H_{2} O_{2} \to 2 \times . O H$ $H_2O_2rarr2xxdotOH$

When we do this for $O F_{2}$ $OF_2$ ...we get $2 \times F^{-} + O (+ I I)$ $2xxF^(-) + O(+II)$

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