RedsAreRaw Posted December 30, 2016 Posted December 30, 2016 Hello everyone, I am working my way through an old Morrison and Boyd 3rd edition Organic Chemistry book. I was unable to find a solutions manual, so I thought this the best way to pose questions that I wasn't 100 percent sure about or could use a little more clarification on. Thanks in advance for the help anyone passes along through my, probable, multiple questions. The first question I had was from one that had the answer in the book: What is the Lowry-Bronsted acid in (a) HCl dissolved in water; (b) HCl (unionized) dissolved in benzene? © Which solution is the more strongly acidic? I got (a) and (b), but I said that (a) was more acidic than (b) because the HCl is undissolved, aka just hydrogen chloride. Am I just missing something?
Elite Engineer Posted December 31, 2016 Posted December 31, 2016 (a) sounds correct. The HCl is donating a proton, which is what a Lowry-Bronsted acid is defined to do.
Sriman Dutta Posted December 31, 2016 Posted December 31, 2016 Ionised HCl is more active than unionised HCl. Ionisation makes acids capable to react readily, because acids get dissociated when dissolved in water.
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