{"id":3723,"date":"2023-03-05T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T04:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:29:25","slug":"lewis-super-acids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lewis-super-acids\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Super Acids"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lewis Super Acids:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lewis super-acids are derived from Lewis acids, <strong>named after the chemist, G N Lewis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lewis superacids are used as catalysts in chemistry to accelerate reactions.<\/li>\n<li>These are compounds that <strong>add electron pairs<\/strong> and can be used to break strong chemical bonds and speed up reactions.<\/li>\n<li>These are highly reactive reagents, thus difficult to produce and use.<\/li>\n<li>It enables non-biodegradable fluorinated hydrocarbons (similar to Teflon) to be converted back into sustainable chemicals.<\/li>\n<li>It can even convert climate-damaging greenhouse gases, such as sulphur hexafluoride into sustainable ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are Lewis Acid and Base?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lewis Acid:<\/strong> It is an\u00a0 electron-pair acceptor such as a Hydrogen ion (H+)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lewis Base:<\/strong> It is an electron-pair donor such as the hydroxide (OH-) ion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the properties of acids ?<\/h3>\n<p>Acids have a sour taste, corrosive,change the color of certain vegetable dyes, such as litmus, from blue to red.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-are-lewis-super-acids\/article66566719.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Science for All | What are Lewis super acids?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis super-acids are used as catalysts in chemistry to accelerate reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}