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Disproportionation
Disproportionation is a concept in chemistry and is a redox reaction where a reactant acts both as a oxidant and a reducing agent
Examples:
- Chlorine (Cl2) reacts with sodium hydroxide to sodium chloride, sodium chlorate and water. One atom of chlorine gets reduced to a chlorine anion with oxidation number -1. The other chlorine atom gets oxidized to a oxidation number of +5 to the chlorate ion.
- the Cannizzaro reaction
This is the opposite of synproportionation
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03-10-2013 05:06:04
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