Group 15

Very short answer type question:

1. Give the oxidation state of nitrogen in N2H4.
2. Name the oxide of a nitrogen which is blue solid. Give one method of its
preparation.
3. Draw the structure of P4O10.
4. Which compound is formed during ring test for nitrates in qualitative
analysis?
5. What is the reaction of water on P4O6?
6. Give the formula of laughing gas.
7. Which oxide of phosphorus is used as a powerful dehydrating agent?
8. Carry out autoxidation of nitrous acid.
9. What is diazo reaction?
10.Give the composition of aqua regia.
11.What happens when PCl5 is hydrolyzed in excess of water?
12.What is geometry of pent halides of phosphorous?
13.Which oxide of nitrogen is obtained by heating ammonium nitrate at 250 c?
14.What is the formula of hydrazoic acid?
15.H3PO2 is a good reducing agent. Why?
16.How many unpaired electrons are present in valance shell of VA group
elements?
17.How many covalent bonds nitrogen can form?
18.What are minimum and maximum oxidation states of nitrogen?
19.Which oxy acids of nitrogen behaves both as an oxidising and a reducing
agent?
20.Why NH3 exists as liquid whereas other hydrides of the same group exist as
gases?
21.Which oxide of nitrogen is paramagnetic and coloured?
22.What is the basicity of hypo phosphorous acid?
23.What is the shape of phosphorous molecule?
24.How will you obtain PH3 form mixture of PH3 and NH3?
25.Why water has highest boiling point among NH3,PH3 and H2O?
26.Why NH3 acts as a ligand?
27.Which product is obtained on dehydration of HNO3?
28.What is the basicity of phosphorous acid?
29.What is the shape of PO4- ion?
30.What is the bond angle HPH in phosphine?
General Questions:
1. Give the preparation of hydrazine. How does it reacts with:
a) Air
b) Nitrous acid
c) Silver nitrate
d) Hydrogen peroxide
2. Draw the structure of any two oxides of phosphorous. How do they react
with water?
3. Give reasons for the following:

a) H3PO3 is dibasic acid.

b) NO is paramagnetic.
c) HNO2 is weaker acid than HNO3.
4. Complete the following reactions:
5. Nitric oxide becomes brown when released in air. Explain?
6. Nitric acid acts only as an oxidising agent while nitrous acid can act both
as oxidising and reducing agent. Why?
7. Why concentrated nitric acid becomes yellow on exposure to sunlight?
8. What is the hybridization of N in NO2- and which has larger bond angle out
of NO2- and NO2?
9. Give two properties to show that H2SO4 acts as an oxidising agent.
10.How is nitric oxide prepared in laboratory and on commercial scale?
11.Give the chemical reactions of nitric oxide with:
a) Phosphorous
b) Sulphurous acid
c) Chlorine
d) Oxygen
e) Ferrous sulphate
12.How does hydrazine reacts with
a) AgNO3
b) HONO
13.Give preparation and structure of phosphine and phosphoric acid.
14.Nitrogen forms NCl3 but not NCl5. Why?
15.Name six important oxoacids of phosphorous. Draw their structures.
16.What happens when:
a). Phosphorus burns in excess of air.
b). Hydrazine reacts with platinum chloride.
c). Hydroxylamine absorbs oxygen in the presence of an alkali.
d). Ammonia is oxidized with air in the presence of platinum gauze.
e). Nitric oxide reacts with phosphorus.
17. Draw and discuss the structures ofH 3PO4, H3PO3 and H3PO4.
18. Give reasons for the following:
a). Nitrogen is a gas whereas phosphorus is a solid.
b). Nitrogen does not form pentahalides.
c). HPO2 is not known.
19. Name any five oxoacids of sulphur and explain their structures.
20. What happens when:
a). Orthophosphonic acid is heated with ammonium molybdate solution.
b). Nitrous acid reacts with urea.
21. Discuss the nitrogen dependent equilibria of nitrogen dioxide and
nitrogen tetraoxide.
22.