Cobalt -, bromide and

Cobaltous bromide and cobaltous iodide in the solid state absorb ammonia with formation of hexammino-cobaltous bromide, [Co(NH3)6]Br2, and hexammino - cobaltous iodide, [Co(NH3)6]I2, respectively. The compounds are unstable, and rapidly lose ammonia on heating and decompose on solution in water. Tetrammino-cobaltous iodide, [Co(NH3)4]I2, is also known. It may be prepared by treating a concentrated solution of cobaltous iodide with ammonia a pale red precipitate is formed, which gradually dissolves on warming, giving a violet-coloured liquid from which small rose-red crystals of the tetram-mine separate. It also is unstable, and decomposes on heating or on standing in air with loss of ammonia and formation of cobalt oxide. In aqueous solution it turns brown, ammonia is evolved, and a precipitate of cobaltous oxyiodide separates. 

The excellent agreement between Richards and Baxter s analyses of cobalt bromide and Baxter and Coffin s analyses of cobalt chloride leaves no doubt as to the accuracy of the value... 

Cobalt Tetra-carbonyl, Co(C0)4 or Co2(CO)g.—This compound may be prepared by passing carbon monoxide at a pressure of 40 atmospheres over reduced cobalt at 150° C. The higher the pressure the more rapid is the formation of the earbonyl.7 It forms as fine, orange-coloured transparent crystals, which are best preserved by hermetically sealing them in a glass tube in an atmosphere of hydrogen or of carbon monoxide. Upon exposure to air decomposition takes place resulting in the formation of a basic cobalt carbonate. With bromine it yields cobalt bromide and carbon monoxide ... 

These results were sufficiently encouraging that a sensitivity analysis for this model was done. We chose to compare the calculated period of oscillation in a CSTR reactor to experimentally measured periods as a function of cobalt, bromide and benzaldehyde concentrations. 

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