Carbon—arsenic bonds antimony halides

Preparative aspects. Since bonds between carbon and arsenic, antimony and bismuth are stable to water they may be made in aqueous solution. Thus, alkyl arsonic adds RAs(OH)2 may be prepared by the Meyer reaction between sodium arsenite and alkyl halides ... 

The trichlorides and tribromides of arsenic and of antimony react with [Fe(A -C5H5)(CO)2l2 by insertion of MXg, or of MXa+ arising from the self-ionization 2MXs MXa+ + MX4", into the iron-iron bond. Indium(i), as InaBri, inserts into carbon-bromine and into carbon-iodine bonds, and into metal-metal and metal-halide bonds as in Mn2(CO)io, MnCl(CO)6, or AuCKPPhg). ... 

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