Nitrogen-bismuth

ARSENIC-, ANTIMONY- AND BISMUTH-NITROGEN RINGS 11.5.1 Cyclopnictazanes... 

The bismuth-nitrogen bonds in these compounds are labile and decomposition slowly occurs at room temperature they may be stored at —78°C. Some reactions are shown in Scheme 7. 

There are a large number of compounds which contain bismuth-nitrogen bonds, but very few in which such bonding represents the main framework of the bonding. There does exist BiCls coordination compounds such as the stable colourless [BiCl3(NH3)3] or the unstable red [(BiCl3)2(NH3)]. These compounds are described in more appropriate sections, except where a point about the Bi—bond is being made. 

The Group VA is the nitrogen family. The group consists of nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. Nitrogen is a diatomic, colorless, and odorless gas, and is not a very reactive element. The Group VA elements have a valence shell configuration of os np ... 

These stability changes are in accordance with the change from a non-metal to a weak metal for the Group V elements nitrogen to bismuth. 

Nitrogen is unusual in forming so many oxides. The acidity of the Group V oxides falls from phosphorus, whose oxides are acidic, through arsenic and antimony whose oxides are amphoteric, to the basic oxide ofbismuth. This change is in accordance with the change from the non-metallic element, phosphorus, to the essentially metallic element, bismuth. The +5 oxides are found, in each case, to be more acidic than the corresponding + 3 oxides. 

Bismuth is the fifth member of the nitrogen family of elements and, like its congeners, possesses five electrons in its outermost shell, In many... 

Bismuth tribromide may be prepared by dissolving Bi O in excess concentrated hydrobromic acid. The slurry formed is allowed to dry in air, then gendy heated in a stream of nitrogen to remove water, and finally distilled in a stream of dry nitrogen. Bismuth tribromide is soluble in aqueous solutions of KCl, HCl, KBr, and KI but is decomposed by water to form bismuth oxybromide [7787-57-7] BiOBr. It is soluble in acetone and ether, and practically insoluble in alcohol. It forms complexes with NH and dissolves in hydrobromic acid from which dihydrogen bismuth pentabromide tetrahydrate [66214-38-8] H2BiBr 4H2O, maybe crystallized at —lO C. 

Pentaphenylbismuth is a violet-colored, crystalline compound that decomposes spontaneously after standing for several days in a dry nitrogen atmosphere. With a variety of agents, eg, hydrohahc acids, halogens, and triphenylboron, one phenyl group is cleaved to form quaternary bismuth compounds. 

The less common heteroatoms are those other than nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur (arid selenium and tellurium which are treated alongside sulfur), i.e. phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, the halogens, silicon, germanium, tin, lead, boron and the transition metals. 

Supplementary Work, Vol 24 Perfluorohnloorganic Compounds of Mam Group Elements Part 3 Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antirnon and Bismuth Compounds Perfhiorohaloorganic Compounds of Main Group Elements Part 5 Compounds oj Nitrogen (Heteroc clrc Compounds)... 

The effect of a particular element on the odour of its compound seems also to lend support to the residual affinity theory, for it is only the elements which possess residual affinity in certain of their compounds, which function as osmophores. Oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorous, halogens, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, etc., whose valencies vary under certain conditions are powerfully osmophoric whereas carbon, hydrogen, and many others which have a constant valency are practically non-osmophoric, and it is very instructive to note that the element is osmophoric when it is not employing its full number of valencies and therefore has free affinity. 

The ylides have been classified on the basis of the heteroalom covalently bonded to the carbanion. Accordingly, they can be differentiated into nitrogen ylide (Scheme 2), sulfur ylide Scheme 3, phosphorus ylide Scheme 4, arsenic ylide Scheme 5, antimony ylide (Scheme 6), bismuth ylide (Scheme 7) and thallium ylide (Scheme 8). 

The solution should be free from the following, which either interfere or lead to an unsatisfactory deposit silver, mercury, bismuth, selenium, tellurium, arsenic, antimony, tin, molybdenum, gold and the platinum metals, thiocyanate, chloride, oxidising agents such as oxides of nitrogen, or excessive amounts of iron(III), nitrate or nitric acid. Chloride ion is avoided because Cu( I) is stabilised as a chloro-complex and remains in solution to be re-oxidised at the anode unless hydrazinium chloride is added as depolariser. 

FIGURE 15.1 The elements of Croup 15N. Back row, from left to right liquid nitrogen, red phosphorus, arsenic. Front row antimony and bismuth. 

Nitrogen is a colorless diatomic gas. Phosphorus has several elemental forms, but the most common is a red solid that is used for match tips. Arsenic and antimony are gray solids, and bismuth is a silvery solid. Classify these elements of Group 15 as metals, nonmetals, or metalloids. 

We see that Group 15 passes through all three classes of elements. The elements with the lowest Z values, nitrogen and phosphoms, are nonmetals. The element with highest Z value, bismuth, is a metal, and the two elements with intermediate Z values, arsenic and antimony, are metalloids. 

Metals may also be linked through an oxygen or nitrogen atom to form a stable metal complex without a carbon-metal bond. These include metal complexes of ethylenediamine tetraacetate (EDTA), diethylenetriamine pentaacetate (DTPA), or ethylenediamine tetramethylphosphonate (EDTMP). Metalloid compounds include antimonyl gluconate and bismuth salicylate. 

The Dragendorjf reagent is available in different compositions, and it mainly stains nitrogen-containing compounds, producing colored zones on a white background. For solntion a 1.7 g of basic bismuth nitrate and 20 g of tartaric acid are dissolved in 80 ml of water. For solution b 16 g of potassium iodide are dissolved in 40 ml of water. The final spray reagent is mixed from solution a and b in the... 

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