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Q. Chemical Properties of group16?

Oxygen is slightly less reactive than the halogens but reacts directly with nearly all the elements except the noble gases, the halogens and a few noble metals. Despite the high bond dissociation energy of 02(498 kJ mol-1), these reactions are frequently highly exothermic and, once initiated, can continue spontaneously or even explosively. For example, its reactions with carbon and hydrogen producing CO2, and Hz O2, respectively.

C(s) + O2 (g) ------------> CO2 (g) DH= 394 kj mol-1

2H2 (g) + O2 (g) -----------> 2H2O (l) DH= -568 kj mol -1

Sulphur is also a very reactive element, particularly at slightly high temperatures. It reacts slowly with Hz at 390 K, more rapidly above 473 K. Hot concentrated HNO, oxidises S to H2S04.

S+ 6HNO3--------------> H2SO4+ 6NO2+ 2H2O

Sulphur dissolves in hot alkali giving a mixture of sulphide and sulphite as the first products. These react with excess of S giving polysulphides of the type Na2S, and some thiosulphate, Na2S20,

3S+ 6NaOH --------------> 2Na2S+ Na2SO3+ 3H2O

Na2S+ Na2So3+ Ns---------> Na2S2O3+ Na2Sn

It reacts with halogens to give compounds like SF6 SF4,  S2Cl2,  S2Br2, etc. The non-metals react with sulphur mostly at elevated temperatures. Sulphur compounds exhibit humerous possible oxidation states, from -2 to +6. You will study about them in the next section.

Selenium, tellurium and polonium combine directly with most elements, though less readily than do 0 and S, the most stable compounds are the selenides, tellurides and polonides  (M2-).

They form compounds with electronegative elements 0, F and CI in which the oxidation states are +2, +4 and +6.a


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