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chlorate ion
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Chlorate is the common name of the anion, whose chlorine atom is in the +5 oxidation state. The term can also refer to chemical compounds containing this anion, with chlorates being the salts of chloric acid. Other oxyanions of chlorine can be named "chlorate" followed by a Roman numeral in parentheses denoting the oxidation state of chlorine: e.g., the ion commonly called perchlorate can also be called chlorate(VII).
Chemical data
- Formula
- ClO3-
- Molecular weight
- 83.45 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- chlorate
- SMILES
- [O-]Cl(=O)=O
- InChIKey
- XTEGARKTQYYJKE-UHFFFAOYSA-M
- XLogP
- 1.5
- Polar surface area
- 57.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- Formal charge
- -1
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 82.954
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- chemical formula
- ClO₃⁻
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- canonical SMILES
- [O-]Cl(=O)=O
- Commons category
- Chlorate ion
- conjugate acid
- chloric acid
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Structure and bonding
- Preparation
- Laboratory
- Industrial
- Natural occurrence
- Compounds (salts)
- Other oxyanions
- Toxicity
- References
- External links
Chlorate is the common name of the anion, whose chlorine atom is in the +5 oxidation state. The term can also refer to chemical compounds containing this anion, with chlorates being the salts of chloric acid. Other oxyanions of chlorine can be named "chlorate" followed by a Roman numeral in parentheses denoting the oxidation state of chlorine: e.g., the ion commonly called perchlorate can also be called chlorate(VII).
As predicted by valence shell electron pair repulsion theory, chlorate anions have trigonal pyramidal structures.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chlorate ion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.