Question

Chlorine reacts with hot and concentrated NaOH and produces compounds (X) and (Y). Compound (X) gives a white precipitate with silver nitrate solution. The average bond order between Cl and O atoms in (Y) is?

Answer 1

$\mathrm{As}\mathrm{here}\mathrm{X}\mathrm{is}\mathrm{Nacl}+{\mathrm{NaClO}}_3+{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}$

As the bond order is = Bond order=total no. of bonds/ total resonating structure=5/3

Hence, the average bond order between cl and o atom is =1.67