Benzene, c6h6, reacts with oxygen, o2, to form co2 and h2o. how much o2 is required for the complete combustion of 1.0 mol c6h6?

7.5 mol of oxygen are required

Explanation:

Hi, as it says, this is a combustion reaction of benzene:

The first step is to balance the equation:

1 mol of for each C in the benzene

1 mol of for each two H in the benzene

1 mol of for each and 0.5 mol for each

Balanced:

Now, following the reaction:

For 1 mol of benzene, 15/2 (7.5) mol of oxygen are required.  

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explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is and electronic configuration of phosphorous is .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.  

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.