IGNOU CHE 2 2018 - Why suitable reducing agents are required for reduction of metal oxide

Question

Why suitable reducing agents are required for reduction of metal oxides? What are the
guidelines to choose a particular reducing agent?

24 Jan 2018

Answer :

Word Count : 327

Reducing agent is the chemical compound which performs reduction reaction. Typically reducing agents are used in the synthesis of metal nanostructures. They are generally reduce metal salts into pure metals, while surfactants are polymers used in the wet chemical synthesis to stabilize nanoparticles against aggregation by steric repulsion. The amount of reducing agent required in a typical reaction is normally decided by the quantity of metal salt at the starting point. While the surfactant amount depends on several parameters like, type and chain length of the polymer, the final target

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