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copper(II) carbonate
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chemical compound
Chemical data
- Formula
- CCuO3
- Molecular weight
- 123.55 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- copper carbonate
- SMILES
- C(=O)([O-])[O-].[Cu+2]
- InChIKey
- GEZOTWYUIKXWOA-UHFFFAOYSA-L
- Polar surface area
- 63.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 122.914
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- Commons category
- Copper(II) carbonate
- canonical SMILES
- C(=O)([O-])[O-].[Cu+2]
- chemical formula
- CuCO₃
- different from
- basic cupric carbonate
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Encyclopedic overview
Copper(II) carbonate or cupric carbonate is a chemical compound with formula CuCO3. At ambient temperatures, it is an ionic solid (a salt) consisting of copper(II) cations Cu and carbonate anions CO2−3.
This compound is rarely encountered because it is difficult to prepare and readily reacts with moisture from the air. The terms "copper carbonate", "copper(II) carbonate", and "cupric carbonate" almost always refer (even in chemistry texts) to a basic copper carbonate (or copper(II) carbonate hydroxide), such as Cu2(OH)2CO3 (which occurs naturally as the mineral malachite) or Cu3(OH)2(CO3)2 (azurite). For this reason, the qualifier neutral may be used instead of "basic" to refer specifically to CuCO3.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “copper(II) carbonate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.