Equilibria Involving Ions of the Intermediate Oxidation State

Equilibria Involving Ions of the Intermediate Oxidation State 

According to [4], reactions involving complexes and related to changes in the oxidation number of the central metal can be divided into two groups  

1) reactions, during which complexes are reduced to atoms afterward forming a crystal metal lattice  

2) charge-exchange reactions when the central atom also changes its oxidation number but remains in the solution phase in the form of a soluble compound. 

If in boundary metal solution, a consecutive charge transfer takes place in several steps, there is probability that complexes formed of partly reduced metal ions will accumulate in the solution till a certain equiUbrium concentration is reached. Then, the above-specified two groups of reactions become related, and the process of the equilibration acquires pecuUarities. Some of them were established in studying the system Cu Cu +, Cu+ [5] however, as far as we know, analogous complex systems have not been investigated thus far. In this relation, the analysis of the systems formed of metal ions of different oxidation number becomes important. 

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