Question

Explain salts of oxo-acids in detail?

Answer 1

Oxoacids are compounds having oxygen along with another element and can donate a proton.

Oxo-acids are those in which the acidic proton is on a hydroxyl group with an oxo group attached to the same atom.

For example $H_{2}C{O}_3\left[OC{\left(OH\right)}_2\right]$ , $H_{2}S{O}_4\left[O_{2}S{\left(OH\right)}_2\right]$ ,$H_{3}P{O}_4\left[OP{\left(OH\right)}_3\right]$ , etc. Salts of oxoacids are compounds in which highly electropositive alkali metal forms salts with oxoacids. For example, $L{i}_{2}C{O}_3$ The hydrogen is replaced by Li atom and called as the salt of oxoacids. The salts of oxoacids are generally soluble in water and stable toward heat.