The electrochemistry of metal complexes reflects the underlying chemical equilibria involved in their formation. A chemist can use the measured electrochemistry to determine the solubility product of a metal-ion complex, or vice versa. Calculate the electrode potential of the following half-cell involving the reduction of the Cu(I)-thiocyanate complex to copper metal, Cu(0).      CuSCN (sat’d), SCN– (0.0300M) | Cu The solubility product, KSP, of CuSCN is 1.77 x 10-11 = [Cu+][SCN–]

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The electrochemistry of metal complexes reflects the underlying chemical equilibria involved in their formation. A chemist can use the measured electrochemistry to determine the solubility product of a metal-ion complex, or vice versa. Calculate the electrode potential of the following half-cell involving the reduction of the Cu(I)-thiocyanate complex to copper metal, Cu(0).   

 

CuSCN (sat’d), SCN– (0.0300M) | Cu


The solubility product, KSP, of CuSCN is 1.77 x 10-11 = [Cu+][SCN–]

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