Ammonium acetate 199 amalgam

Mercury diphenyl has been prepared in a number of ways. The most important methods are by the action of sodium on a mixture of bromobcnzene and mercuric chloride 1 from sodium amalgam and phenyl mercuric iodide 2 by the interaction of phenyl mercuric bromide and potassium sulfide2 or phenyl mercuric acetate and sodium stannite 3 from phenyl magnesium bromide and mercuric chloride 4 by the action of phenyl hydrazine on mercury compounds 5 from mercuric chloride and phenyl arsenious oxide 6 and from diphenyl mercuric ammonium acetate and sulfur compounds.7... 

N-Methylethylamine has been prepared by heating ethyl-amine with methyl iodide in alcohol at 100° 3 by the hydrolysis of N-methyl-N-ethylarenesulfonamides,4-5 -nitroso-N-methyl-N-ethylaniline,6 or methylethylbenzhydrylidene ammonium iodide 7 by catalytic hydrogenation of ethyl isocyanate or ethyl isocyanide 8 and by the reduction of ethyl isocyanate by lithium aluminum hydride,9 of N-methylacetisoaldoxime by sodium amalgam and acetic acid,10 or of a nitromethane/ethylmagnesium bromide adduct by zinc and hydrochloric acid.11... 

The monazite sand is heated with sulfuric acid at about 120 to 170°C. An exothermic reaction ensues raising the temperature to above 200°C. Samarium and other rare earths are converted to their water-soluble sulfates. The residue is extracted with water and the solution is treated with sodium pyrophosphate to precipitate thorium. After removing thorium, the solution is treated with sodium sulfate to precipitate rare earths as their double sulfates, that is, rare earth sulfates-sodium sulfate. The double sulfates are heated with sodium hydroxide to convert them into rare earth hydroxides. The hydroxides are treated with hydrochloric or nitric acid to solubihze all rare earths except cerium. The insoluble cerium(IV) hydroxide is filtered. Lanthanum and other rare earths are then separated by fractional crystallization after converting them to double salts with ammonium or magnesium nitrate. The samarium—europium fraction is converted to acetates and reduced with sodium amalgam to low valence states. The reduced metals are extracted with dilute acid. As mentioned above, this fractional crystallization process is very tedious, time-consuming, and currently rare earths are separated by relatively easier methods based on ion exchange and solvent extraction. 

Acetic acid-acetic anhydride, 85 Alkali azides, 79 Alkaline earth azides, 79 Alumino-oxalates, 36 Amalgams, 5 concentration of, 17 preparation of, 6 rare earth metal, 15 Ammonium nitrourethane, 69 Ammonium perrhenate, 177 Antimony oxyiodide, 105 Antimony triiodide, 104 Aquopentammino cobalti bromide, 187, 188... 

It was found impossible to measure the rate of decomposition by the evolution of gases because the release of these gas bubbles is very slow and erratic. The course of the reaction was followed by analyzing samples for the ammonium ion. Small amounts of the decomposing amalgam were forced through a capillary tube into a chilled solution of an iodate. The ammonium reacted with iodate ion to give iodide ion. The solution was then acidified with acetic acid and the iodine distilled out, collected and titrated with sodium thiosulfate. The method was checked with samples... 

This reaction has found little application to mercaptan syntheses since the mercaptans are usually as readily available (by other methods) as the disulfides. The S-S linkage is reduced by zinc in acetic or sulfuric " acid, lithium aluminum hydride, or metallic sodium. y-Hydroxy-propyl disulfide is reduced electrolytically in 70% yield. Reduction by sodium disulfide does not reduce the nitro group in the preparation of p-nitrothiophenol (65%), whereas zinc and acetic acid converts o-nitro-phenyl disulfide to o-aminothiophenol (90%). Disulfides made by the action of ammonium hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes are sources for difficultly available aromatic and heterocyclic mercaptans. The disulfides are reduced by aluminum amalgam and water. ... 

It reacts with hydrochloric or hydriodic acids, giving acetic acid, naphthalene, and a mercuric halide four atoms of iodine react giving acetic acid, mercuric iodide, and iodonaphthalene sodium amalgam on the alcoholic solution yields mercury, acetic acid, and naphthalene alcoholic hydrogen sulphide or ammonium sulphide at 100° C. break the compound down into acetic acid, mercuric sulphide, and naphthalene. 

Under suitable conditions it is possible to isolate the A-substituted hydroxylamines that are formed as intermediates in the reduction of nitro compounds. For this purpose it is essential in the reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to work with neutral or nearly neutral solutions suitable reducing agents are hydrogen and platinum oxide catalysts in glacial acetic acid,82,83 zinc dust in ammonium chloride solution,84 aluminum amalgam,85 and ammonium sulfide.86 Aliphatic nitro compounds may be reduced as their alkali salts (nitronates) by diborane in tetrahydrofuran, then giving A-alkylhydroxyl-amines 87 for instance, A-cyclohexylhydroxylamine is thus obtained from nitrocyclohexane in 53% yield. However, aliphatic nitro compounds are converted into A-alkylhydroxylamines more simply by catalytic hydrogenation in the presence of palladium-barium sulfate unlike aromatic nitro compounds, aliphatic nitro compounds require an acid medium for reduction to hydroxylamines an oxalic acid medium has proved the most suitable. 

Cobalt(I) complexes (such as cob(I)alamin formerly called B,2s) can be obtained both by electrolytic reduction [14,21] and chemical reduction of both cobalt(II) and cobalt(III) complexes. Although borohydride ion is by far the most commonly used reducing agent for most cobalt chelates, sodium, sodium amalgam, and potassium have been used [22] as has zinc dust in acetic acid [23] and in aqueous ammonium chloride [24] as well as chromous ion [25],... 

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