What is the electronic structure of selenium? What salt would it form with chromium metal?

1 Answer
Sep 3, 2017

Well selenium is a chalcogen; it shares the same group, and same electronic structure as oxygen or sulfur.

Explanation:

And thus if we got Cr(VI+)Cr(VI+), we would have CrSe_3CrSe3, just as we have CrO_3CrO3 or CrS_3CrS3...in that oxygen, sulfur, and selenium commonly form E^(2-)E2 ions........

While CrO_3CrO3 is certainly known, "chromic selenide"chromic selenide might be rare or unknown. The Cr(II) salt, CrSe, is certainly known........