Latimer and Frost Diagrams: Reading Redox Chemistry From a Picture
Inorganic Chemistry · Redox Latimer and Frost Diagrams: Reading Redox Chemistry From a Picture Two ways of displaying the same data, each answering a different question — one about individual couples, one about which species survive. BSc & MSc · Inorganic Chemistry · Method The short answer: A Latimer diagram lists reduction potentials between adjacent oxidation states. A Frost diagram plots nE° against oxidation state, so stability becomes visual: the lowest point is the most stable species, and any species lying above the line joining its neighbours will disproportionate. Latimer diagrams A Latimer diagram writes the oxidation states of an…