Cadmium acetate formula?

Question

I'm doing an online assignment for my college chemistry class (with instant right/wrong feedback and opportunities to fix wrong answers). It asks for the formula for cadmium acetate, and it says it has 1 cadmium atom, 4 oxygen atoms, 4 carbon atoms, and 6 hydrogen atoms. according to instructions on the practice page of how to form the formula, I thought it should be C4H6CdO4, but the online program says it's wrong. Is this a bug in the program or did I do something wrong?

Answer 1

Try Cd(CH3COO)2.

Answer 2

It is:

Cd(CH3COO)2

Cadmium ion is always Cd2+

and acetate ion is CH3COO- or C2H3O2-

Answer 3

u can write it as CH3COOCdCOOCH3, OR preferably as (CH3COO)2Cd...

if u want a little more detail it will be...

........O............O

........||.............||

CH3-C-O-Cd-O-C-CH3

btw the lines and dashes represent bonds, n the dots are jst so that i could put the oxygen above the respective double bonds...heh...hope this helped...

Answer 4

I believe the answer is this Cd(CH3COO)2

If this does not work then leave a comment and I'll try to help some more.

Good luck!