Would monopotassium phosphate react with calcium hypochlorite? I wanted to make a dry mix of 250 g of monopotassium phosphate to 1 gram of calcium hypochlorite? If they are stable dry, would that change when dissolved in water?
They probably would react when wet, and not in a dry mix.
HClO is a weak acid. pKa +7,52. Slightly weaker than the second base of phosphoric acid (pKa 7,21). In a dilute aqueous solution of NaClO, the equilibrium should be on the side of HClO, slightly.
But it isnĀ“t NaClO. It is Ca(ClO)
2.
The insolubility of CaHPO
4 should drive the reaction to completion even in a dilute solution:
KH
2PO
4+Ca(ClO)
2 =CaHPO
4 +KClO+HClO
But a wet powder is not a dilute solution. No, it should not evolve chlorine in the absence of a reducer. It should evolve Cl
2O:
2KH
2PO
4+Ca(ClO)
2 =CaHPO
4 +K
2HPO
4+H
2O+Cl
2O
Actually, HClO looks slightly like H
2CO
3. Both are weak acids (H
2CO
3 pKa is 6,35) and liable to evolve gases.
Dry mixes of NaHCO
3 with dry solid acids like citric acids are stable, but evolve gas when wet. I expect that dry mixes of Ca(ClO)
2 with dry solid acids should do the same.
Also, would I be able to add insole-3-butyric acid potassium salts?
What is that "insole-3-butyric acid"?