Calculate the concentration of hydrogen peroxide

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The discussion focuses on calculating the concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in a titration with potassium permanganate (KMnO4). It is established that 2 moles of KMnO4 react with 3 moles of H2O2. The concentration of H2O2 in a 10 mL aliquot is calculated to be 0.086592 M based on a titration with a 0.0176 M KMnO4 solution requiring 32.8 mL to reach the endpoint. Additionally, the natural logarithm of the concentration of H2O2 is approximately -2.868.

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can anone help me with these questions?

a) How many moles of hydrogen peroxide react with each mole of permanganate in the titrationmoles of MnO4- per mole of H2O2

b) Calculate the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in the 10 mL aliquot, taken from the reaction if the titration with 0.0176 M permanganate solution requires 32.8 mL to reach the end-point

c) If the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in the 10 mL aliquot is 0.0568, calculate ln([H2O2])

your help will be greatly appreciated!
 
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Hello,

I will try to solve the problems.

a) How many moles of hydrogen peroxide react with each mole of permanganate in the titrationmoles of MnO4- per mole of H2O2

My answer: As you know, peroxide reacts with permanganate to yield elemental oxygene and manganese(IV) oxide:

2Mn(7+) + 6e(-) --> 2Mn(4+)
3O2(2-) --> 3O2 + 6e(-)

2KMnO4 + 3H2O2 --> 2MnO2 + 3O2 + 2KOH + 2H2O

Thus, 2 moles of permanganate is required to oxidize 3 moles of peroxide.

b) Calculate the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in the 10 mL aliquot, taken from the reaction if the titration with 0.0176 M permanganate solution requires 32.8 mL to reach the end-point

My answer: I like to express the milimoles by directly multiplying the molarity and titer; so we obtain 0.0176*32.8=0,57728 milimoles of permanganate. We will multiply this value with 1.5 (as seen from the mole ratio between permanganate and peroxide in the reaction above) to learn the amount of reacted peroxide: 0.86592 milimoles of peroxide in 10 mL solution. This gives a 0,086592 M solution.

c) If the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in the 10 mL aliquot is 0.0568, calculate ln([H2O2])

My answer: I assume that [H2O2] is expressed as molar concentration, so we may directly calculate the ln value from this: in this way, we obtain approximately -2.868.

I may be wrong, but I have not found any errors.

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chem_tr
 

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