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Non Life Sciences => Chemistry => Topic started by: JJoseph on 16/02/2013 11:11:08

Title: What results from reacting a super-acid with a super-base?
Post by: JJoseph on 16/02/2013 11:11:08

What happens if I mix Fluoroantimonic acid and lithium diisopropylamide

Title: Re: What results from reacting a super-acid with a super-base?
Post by: Bored chemist on 18/02/2013 19:48:18

Probably less than you would expect.
You would get a violent reaction to give lithium fluoroantimonate and (if the acid were in excess) diisopropylammonium fluoroantimonate.
However I suspect the reaction between, for example, sodium hydroxide and sulphuric acid might be more violent.
The stupidly expensive reactants would release more energy (though possibly not much more) but the energy would be shared out among a larger number of atoms so the overall rise in temperature might actually be smaller.

Don't try this at home.
(Don't try it anywhere else either).

Title: Re: What results from reacting a super-acid with a super-base?
Post by: Don_1 on 19/02/2013 13:13:49

Dag nabbit!

I wish I'd read all of your post before I rushed up to the corner shop.

Quote from: Bored chemist on 18/02/2013 19:48:18

Don't try this at home.
(Don't try it anywhere else either).

Now what am I gonna do with all this fluoroantimonic acid and lithium diisopropylamide?

Title: Re: What results from reacting a super-acid with a super-base?
Post by: Bored chemist on 19/02/2013 19:50:56

eBay

Title: Re: What results from reacting a super-acid with a super-base?
Post by: fig on 28/03/2013 05:24:51

super acid + super base = super neutralization