I hadn’t heard of peroxyhypochlorous acid before, but looking it up (HOOCl) I can imagine it forming by the O’s of ClO- and HOCl meeting and kicking out one of the Cl’s as Cl-. That being said, given that Cl with O’s bonded tends to be more of a thing than oxygen-oxygen bonds (and Cl would be the more positive side (?) of the Cl/O bond having more protons and thus more likely to bond with the O than another O?), wouldn’t chlorous acid (HOClO) be more likely to be produced by those things reacting (with either of the Cl’s bonding with the O of the other and kicking out the other Cl as Cl-)? Which would then presumably lead to further oxychlorine stuff rather than pure oxygen?
I hadn’t heard of peroxyhypochlorous acid before, but looking it up (HOOCl) I can imagine it forming by the O’s of ClO- and HOCl meeting and kicking out one of the Cl’s as Cl-. That being said, given that Cl with O’s bonded tends to be more of a thing than oxygen-oxygen bonds (and Cl would be the more positive side (?) of the Cl/O bond having more protons and thus more likely to bond with the O than another O?), wouldn’t chlorous acid (HOClO) be more likely to be produced by those things reacting (with either of the Cl’s bonding with the O of the other and kicking out the other Cl as Cl-)? Which would then presumably lead to further oxychlorine stuff rather than pure oxygen?