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Kinetics And Stoichiometry Of The Aquation Reaction Of Pentaaquomonobromomethylchromium (Iii) Perchlorate, Janice Imada Byington

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was to determine the kinetics and stoichiometry for the aquation of the pentaaquomonobromonmethylchromium(III) complex. The complex was prepared by the reduction of dibromomethane by chromium(II). The products of aquation, in the absence of oxygen, were found to be hexaaquachromium(III), methanol, and bromide. The balanced net ionic reaction can be written: 2H₂O + (H₂O)₅CrCH₂Br²⁺ → (H₂O)₆Cr³⁺ + CH₃OH + Br^-