Answer to Question #156688 in Organic Chemistry for Israa

Question

Aqueous awesome(III) hydroxide reacts with aqueous beautiful(II) chloride to produce awesome(III) chloride and solid beautiful(II) hydroxide.

Answer 1

Let Awesome be represented by Aw

Beautiful be represented by Bu

The Chemical reaction becomes;

$Aw(OH)_3 + BuCl_2 \to AwCl_3 ,+ Bu(OH)_2$

Since according to the IUPAC name of Aw and Bu,

Aw has an oxidation number of 3; and

Bu has an oxidation number of 2.