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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

How Basicity of H3PO3 and H3PO2 are 2 and 1 respectively

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7 Years agoGrade 11
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7 Years ago
Dear Student,
H3PO3 has only two OH bonds, remember only H of OH bond is ionisable not the one attached to the P directly via double bond.
In H3PO2 only one OH bond is there.