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Alkoxide ions
« on: February 19, 2014, 02:17:47 PM »
Calculate equilibrium concentrations in a 0.2 dm3 aqueous solution (25°C) of alcohol (pKa = 16), 0.6 moldm-3 initial concentration, to which 3g sodium metal is added? E°(Na+/Na) = -2.71 V.

I know the reactions are:

2H+ + 2Na (s) ::equil:: H2 (g) + 2Na+
R-OH (aq)  ::equil:: R-O- (aq) + H+
H2O  ::equil:: H+ + OH-

The equilibrium constants for these reactions are given. My issues are, how to deal with production of H2 (g) - clearly we need to calculate partial pressure somehow - and with Na (s). Seems hard to write a mass balance including either of these.

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