Table For Urry Q3
Table For Urry Q3
Table For Urry Q3
If more than two polyatomic anions are formed from a given element and oxygen,
the prefixes per- and hypo- are added to distinguish the additional ions. This appears
most often among the polyatomic anions with a halogen as the distinguishing element.
The prefixes per- and hypo- are often used to identify the extremes (the high and low)
in oxidation numbers of the element in the anion. Table D2C.2, page 100, summarizes
the nomenclature for these and other polyatomic anions.
For example, ClO4– is perchlorate because the oxidation number of Cl is +7 (the
highest oxidation number of the four polyatomic anions of chlorine), whereas ClO– is
hypochlorite because the oxidation number of Cl is +1. Therefore, NaClO4 is sodium
perchlorate and NaClO is sodium hypochlorite. The name of Co(ClO3)2 is cobalt(II)
chlorate because the chlorate ion is ClO3– (see Table D2C.1) and the oxidation number
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