Complex ions chemical properties

Separation Processes. The product of ore digestion contains the rare earths in the same ratio as that in which they were originally present in the ore, with few exceptions, because of the similarity in chemical properties. The various processes for separating individual rare earth from naturally occurring rare-earth mixtures essentially utilize small differences in acidity resulting from the decrease in ionic radius from lanthanum to lutetium. The acidity differences influence the solubiUties of salts, the hydrolysis of cations, and the formation of complex species so as to allow separation by fractional crystallization, fractional precipitation, ion exchange, and solvent extraction. In addition, the existence of tetravalent and divalent species for cerium and europium, respectively, is useful because the chemical behavior of these ions is markedly different from that of the trivalent species. 

Alkali sihcates are used as components, rather than reactants, in many appHcations. In many cases they only contribute partially to overall performance. Utility factors are generally not as easy to identify. Their benefit usually depends on the surface and solution chemical properties of the wide range of highly hydrophilic polymeric siUcate ions deUverable from soluble sihcate products or their proprietary modifications. In most cases, however, one or two of the many possible induences of these complex anions cleady express themselves in final product performance at a level sufficient to justify their use (102). Estimates of the 1995 U.S. consumption of sodium sihcates are shown in Table 6. 

Chelate Formation. Citric acid complexes with many multivalent metal ions to form chelates (9,10). This important chemical property makes citric acid and citrates useful in controlling metal contamination that can affect the color, stabiUty, or appearance of a product or the efficiency of a process. 

The sorption of ions of heavy metals (Cu(II), Zn(II), Cr(VI), Cd(II), Pb(II)) on ChCS in static and dynamic conditions were studied. For an estimation of selective sorbate ability ChCS the distribution factor was determined. Sorption, physical and chemical properties of complexes received by different methods were analyzed by a compai ative method. 

The physical and chemical properties of complex ions and of the coordination compounds they form depend on the spatial orientation of ligands around the central metal atom. Here we consider the geometries associated with the coordination numbers 2,4, and 6. With that background, we then examine the phenomenon of geometric isomerism, in which two or more complex ions have the same chemical formula but different properties because of their different geometries. 

Two or more species with different physical and chemical properties but the same formula are said to be isomers of one another. Complex ions can show many different kinds of isomerism, only one of which we will consider. Geometric isomers are ones that differ only in the spatial orientation of ligands around the central metal atom. Geometric isomerism is found in square planar and octahedral complexes. It cannot occur in tetrahedral complexes where all four positions are equivalent... 

An investigation of the physical-chemical properties and IR spectra of melts with relatively low metal concentrations indicated that heptafluorometalate ions, TaF72, are also present in the melt. These measurements initiated the second conceptual step and it was assumed that there are two types of complex ions, namely octafluorometalate, MeF83 , and heptafluorometalate, MeF72, that determine the melt s various properties. 

Many complexes and coordination compounds exist as isomers, compounds that contain the same numbers of the same atoms but in different arrangements. For example, the ions shown in (13a) and (13b) differ only in the positions of the Cl ligands, but they are distinct species, because they have different physical and chemical properties. Isomerism is of more than academic interest for example, anticancer drugs based on complexes of platinum are active only if they are the correct isomer. The complex needs to have a particular shape to interact with DNA molecules. 

In general the metal complexes are charged. It is thus possible to convert the racemic mixture of such a complex into a pair of diastereoisomeric species with different physico-chemical properties, in particular solubihty, by association with an enantiomerically pure chiral coimterion [19]. Examples of frequently used such ions are shown in Fig. 3. Then the separation can be achieved by ... 

As has been suggested in the previous section, explanations of solvent effects on the basis of the macroscopic physical properties of the solvent are not very successful. The alternative approach is to make use of the microscopic or chemical properties of the solvent and to consider the detailed interaction of solvent molecules with their own kind and with solute molecules. If a configuration in which one or more solvent molecules interacts with a solute molecule has a particularly low free energy, it is feasible to describe at least that part of the solute-solvent interaction as the formation of a molecular complex and to speak of an equilibrium between solvated and non-solvated molecules. Such a stabilization of a particular solute by solvation will shift any equilibrium involving that solute. For example, in the case of formation of carbonium ions from triphenylcarbinol, the equilibrium is shifted in favor of the carbonium ion by an acidic solvent that reacts with hydroxide ion and with water. The carbonium ion concentration in sulfuric acid is greater than it is in methanol-... 

Chemical relaxation methods can be used to determine mechanisms of reactions of ions at the mineral/water interface. In this paper, a review of chemical relaxation studies of adsorption/desorption kinetics of inorganic ions at the metal oxide/aqueous interface is presented. Plausible mechanisms based on the triple layer surface complexation model are discussed. Relaxation kinetic studies of the intercalation/ deintercalation of organic and inorganic ions in layered, cage-structured, and channel-structured minerals are also reviewed. In the intercalation studies, plausible mechanisms based on ion-exchange and adsorption/desorption reactions are presented steric and chemical properties of the solute and interlayered compounds are shown to influence the reaction rates. We also discuss the elementary reaction steps which are important in the stereoselective and reactive properties of interlayered compounds. 

Many compounds of technetium and rhenium are of analogous composition and of corresponding physical and chemical properties. Because of the very similar ionic radii, isotypic crystal structure formation of analogous compounds could often be observed. Technetium remarkably differs from manganese by the high stability of pertechnetate compared with permanganate. Moreover, divalent technetium does not exist as a hydrated ion but only as a stabilized complex. 

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