UDEC 1134

CHEMISTRY LABORATORY I

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Name: Melanie Ho Yenn Ting

Student ID: 21ADB06296

Lab partners:

Title of Experiment: Experiment 3 : Halogen-Halide

Reactions in Aqueous Solution

Date: 9/2/2022

Practical Group: P3

Name of Lecturer: Ms. Chang Chew Cheen

EXPERIMENT 3: HALOGEN-HALIDE REACTIONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION

Objectives: To investigate the order of oxidizing ability of the halogen Cl2, Br2, and I2 in

aqueous solution.

Results:

Chlorine Bromine Iodine

Water Water Solution
No. Initial Colour Yellow Orange Violet
1. Colour after shaking with KI solution Dark Brown Orange
Upper Violet Violet
Colour of each layer after
Dark Red Dark Red
shaking with hexane Lower
Brown Brown
Reaction Reaction
Conclusion
occurs occurs
2. Colour after shaking with KBr solution Yellow Orange
Upper Pale Yellow Violet
Colour of each layer after
Reddish
shaking with hexane Lower Yellow
Brown
Reaction
Conclusion No reaction
occurs
3. Colour after shaking with KCl solution Orange Orange
Upper Orange Violet
Colour of each layer after
Dark Reddish
shaking with hexane Lower
Orange Brown
Conclusion No reaction No Reaction
Questions:

1. (a) Does I2 (aq KI) oxidize Cl- (aq) and Br- (aq) ?

Iodine is less electronegative than chlorine and bromine. Hence, iodine cannot

displace chlorine from potassium chloride solution and bromine from potassium

bromide solution.

(b) Does Br2 (aq) oxidize Cl- (aq) and I- (aq) ?

Bromine is less electronegative than chlorine. Therefore, bromine cannot displace

chlorine from potassium chloride solution. However, Bromine is more

electronegative than iodine. Therefore, bromine displaces iodine from potassium

iodide solution. Bromine acts as the oxidising agent, whereas iodide ions act as the

reducing agent.

(c) Does Cl2 (aq) oxidize Br- (aq) and I- (aq) ?

Chlorine is more electronegative than bromine and iodine. Therefore, chlorine

displaces bromine from potassium bromide solution and iodine from potassium

iodide solution. Chlorine acts as the oxidising agent, whereas bromide ions and

iodide ions act as the reducing agent.

2. Write ionic equations for the reactions taking place.

Cl2 (aq) + 2Br- (aq) → 2Cl- (aq) + Br2 (aq)

Cl2 (aq) + 2I- (aq) → 2Cl- (aq) + I2 (aq)

Br2 (aq) + 2I- (aq) → 2Br- (aq) + I2 (aq)

3. Base on the results of the experiment; arrange the halogen in order of increasing

oxidizing ability.

I2 < Br2 < Cl2

Conclusion:

A more electronegative halogen can displace a less electronegative halogen from its halide

solution whereby the more electronegative halogen acts as the oxidising agent and the halide

ions of the less electronegative halogen act as the reducing agent.

Reference:

Anon, 2020. The Halogens. Available at: https://chem.libretexts.org/@go/page/574

[Accessed February 21, 2022].