Disproportionation

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Disproportionation is a concept in chemistry and is a redox reaction where a reactant acts both as a oxidant and a reducing agent

Examples:

• Chlorine (Cl₂) reacts with sodium hydroxide to sodium chloride, sodium chlorate and water. One atom of chlorine gets reduced to a chlorine anion with oxidation number -1. The other chlorine atom gets oxidized to a oxidation number of +5 to the chlorate ion.
• the Cannizzaro reaction

This is the opposite of synproportionation

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