INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - 3 PART QUESTION
1. Use Slater’s Rules to explain which electron is lost first, second, third and fourth when tungsten is oxidized from the neutral metal to tungsten(IV). Show your work.

2. What is the formula of the highest oxide (either an oxocation, a neutral oxide or an oxoanion) of tungsten(VI)? Name it. What would you expect the pKb of this oxide to be? What shape would you expect this ion/molecule to have? Show your work.

3. If you reduced the species in question #2 from tungsten(VI) to tungsten (IV) but kept the same number of oxo groups, would you expect the geometry to change? Explain your answer with explicit calculations.