Towards the development of strong reductive formulation for the dissolution of higher Cr containing iron oxides (corrosion products), the feasibility study of Cr(II) preparation is reported. Two methods were investigated - namely electrolytic method wherein reduction of Cr(III) to Cr(II) over Hg surface was tried (Ind chemical method wherein Cr(III) was reduced to Cr(II) over Zn (as sacrificial anode) in HCI medium. The electrolysis method was not found to be feasible unlike the chemical method. During electrolysis of Cr(III) salts/complexes there occurred a simultaneous reduction of Cr(III) to Cr(II) and/or Cr(0) because of their close-lying reduction potentials. Thus, quantitative electrolysis could not be done by this method because each time it ended with decolorization of catholyte with the formation of fine black powder on the Hg surface. This black powder was characterized to be Cr metal (using XRD, EDX and SEM techniques). It can be noted that, it took days to remove this fine black powder from Hg surface even after repeated washings. Also, in order to overcome this problem electrolysis was also tried by employing Ti electrode in place of Hg. Although no such black powder was seen, practically there was no change in solution potential indicating no Cr(III) reduction on Ti electrode. Thus, electrolysis method could not be pursued further, and hence we explored alternative chemical method involving a corroding Zn surface. In this method, Cr(II) generated was complexed with sodium acetate to obtain a red-brown precipitate of chromous acetate which was characterized by recording its UV-Visible spectra.