Fundamentals J.17

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Could someone walk me through how to do the following question? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

In each of the following salts, either the cation or the anion is a weak acid or a weak base in water. Write the chemical equation for the proton transfer reaction of this cation or anion with water:

(b) KClO

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KClO dissociates into K+ (a neutral metal cation) and ClO- (an anion which is going to be a weak base since it is likely to accept a proton from water). Thus, ClO- (aq) + H2O (l) --> HClO (aq) + OH- (aq). When the weak base, ClO- accepts a proton from water, the conjugate base of water is OH- since it lost a proton, and the conjugate acid of ClO- is HClO (since it gained a proton).

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