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Acid that contains oxygen

An oxyacid, oxoacid, or ternary acid is an acid that contains oxygen. Specifically, it is a compound that contains hydrogen, oxygen, and at least one other element, with at least one hydrogen atom bonded to oxygen that can dissociate to produce the H+ cation and the anion of the acid.

Under Lavoisier's original theory, all acids contained oxygen, which was named from the Greek ὀξύς (oxys: acid, sharp) and the root γενής ( genes: creator). It was later discovered that some acids, notably hydrochloric acid, did not contain oxygen and so acids were divided into oxo acids and these new hydroacids. All oxyacids have the acidic hydrogen bound to an oxygen atom, so bond strength (length) is not a factor, as it is with binary nonmetal hydrides. Rather, the electronegativity of the central atom and the number of oxygen atoms determine oxyacid acidity. For oxyacids with the same central atom, acid strength increases with the number of oxygen atoms attached to it. With the same number of oxygen atoms attached to it, acid strength increases with increasing electronegativity of the central atom. Compared to the salts of their deprotonated forms (a class of compounds known as the oxyanions), oxyacids are generally less stable, and many of them only exist formally as hypothetical species, or only exist in solution and cannot be isolated in pure form. There are several general reasons for this: (1) they may condense to form oligomers (e. g., H2CrO4 to H2Cr2O7), or dehydrate all the way to form the anhydride (e. g., H2CO3 to CO2), (2) they may disproportionate to one compound of higher and another of lower oxidation state (e. g., HClO2 to HClO and HClO3), or (3) they might exist almost entirely as another, more stable tautomeric form (e. g., phosphorous acid P(OH)3 exists almost entirely as phosphonic acid HP(=O)(OH)2). Nevertheless, perchloric acid (HClO4), sulfuric acid (H2SO4), and nitric acid (HNO3) are a few common oxyacids that are relatively easily prepared as pure substances. Imidic acids are created by replacing =O with =NR in an oxyacid.

Many inorganic oxyacids are traditionally called with names ending with the word acid and which also contain, in a somewhat modified form, the name of the element they contain in addition to hydrogen and oxygen. Well known examples of such acids are sulfuric acid, nitric acid and phosphoric acid. This practice is fully well established, and IUPAC has accepted such names. In light of the current chemical nomenclature, this practice is an exception, because systematic names of compounds are formed according to the elements they contain and their molecular structure, not according to other properties (for example, acidity) they have. IUPAC, however, recommends against calling future compounds not yet discovered with a name ending with the word acid. In fact, the fully systematic name of sulfuric acid, according to IUPAC's rules, would be dihydroxidodioxidosulfur and that of the sulfate ion, tetraoxidosulfate(2−), Such names, however, are almost never used. However, the same element can form more than one acid when compounded with hydrogen and oxygen. In such cases, the English practice to distinguish such acids is to use the suffix ic in the name of the element in the name of the acid containing more oxygen atoms, and the suffix ous in the name of the element in the name of the acid containing fewer oxygen atoms. Thus, for example, sulfuric acid is H2SO4, and sulfurous acid, H2SO3. Analogously, nitric acid is HNO3, and nitrous acid, HNO2. If there are more than two oxyacids having the same element as the central atom, then, in some cases, acids are distinguished by adding the prefix per or hypo to their names. The prefix per , however, is used only when the central atom is a halogen or a group 7 element.