Aprotic acid is a chemical compound capable of accepting an electron pair into an unfilled orbital (i.e., Lewis acid ) and not containing nuclei of a hydrogen atom . In other words, aprotic acid is a chemical compound that does not include a hydrogen atom, but is an acceptor of a pair of electrons .
Examples of aprotic acids are
- ZnCl 2
- FeCl 3 ,
- FeBr 3 ,
- Bf 3 ,
- AlCl 3 ,
- SnCl 4 ,
- TiCl 3 ,
- TiCl 4 ,
- SbCl 5 .
Examples of chemical reactions with aprotic acids:
- AlCl 3 + Cl - → AlCl 4 -
- AlF 3 + 3F - → AlF 6 3−
- BF 3 + F - → BF 4 -
- PCl 5 + Cl - → PCl 6 -
- SF 4 + F - → SF 5 -
- SiF 4 + 2F - → SiF 6 2−
See also
- Acid
- Theories of Acids and Bases
- Super Acid