Gold Group

While main group metals and early transition metals are hard Lewis acids favoring coordination of carbonyl groups, gold, one of the late transition metals, is classified as a soft metal that activates 7r-electron systems like olefins and... 

This class of compounds showing explosive instability deals with heavy metals bonded to elements other than nitrogen and contains the separately treated groups GOLD COMPOUNDS LEAD SALTS OF NITRO COMPOUNDS LITHIUM PERALKYLURANATES MERCURY COMPOUNDS METAL ACETYLIDES METAL FULMINATES METAL OXALATES PLATINUM COMPOUNDS PRECIOUS METAL DERIVATIVES SILVER COMPOUNDS... 

Keywords MCM-41 silica, surface silicon hydride groups, gold and silver in situ reduction, nickel, cobalt, and iron aeetylacetonates, acetylene pyrolysis, carbon nanotubes... 

Fluorescent reagent for thiol groups. Gold needles (EtOH aq.). Mp 223-225°. 

Fig. X-12. Advancing and receding contact angles of various liquids [water (circles), Gly = glycerol (squares), Form = formamide (diamonds), EG = ethylene glycol (circles), BN = abromonapthalene (squares), BCH = bicyclohexyl (diamond), HD = hexadecane (circles)] on monolayers of HS(CH2)i60R having a range of R groups adsorbed on gold and silver (open and filled symbols respectively). (From Ref. 171.)...

The strong bond fonned between tire tliiol endgroups and gold and silver surfaces allows tire possibility of fonning molecules tliat have a wide variety of different functional groups at tire opposite end and tluis of coating a noble metal surface witli a variety of differently functionalized molecules and mixtures. 

Bain C D, Evall J and Whitesides G M 1989 Formation of monolayers by the ooadsorption of thiols on gold— variation in the head group, tail group, and solvent J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ill 7155-64... 

Golddll) chloride dissolves in hydrochloric acid to form tetra-chlorauric acid. HAUCI4. Here again, the gold(III) is 4-co-ordinate in the ion [AuCl4] . If alkali is added to this acid, successive replacement of chlorine atoms by hydroxyl groups occurs, forming finally the unstable tetrahydroxoaurate IlI) ion, [Au(OH)4] ... 

These elements formed Group IIB of Mendeleef s original periodic table. As we have seen in Chapter 13, zinc does not show very marked transition-metaf characteristics. The other two elements in this group, cadmium and mercury, lie at the ends of the second and third transition series (Y-Cd, La-Hg) and, although they resemble zinc in some respects in showing a predominantly - - 2 oxidation state, they also show rather more transition-metal characteristics. Additionally, mercury has characteristics, some of which relate it quite closely to its immediate predecessors in the third transition series, platinum and gold, and some of which are decidedly peculiar to mercury. 

Rubidium can be liquid at room temperature. It is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali group and is the second most electropositive and alkaline element. It ignites spontaneously in air and reacts violently in water, setting fire to the liberated hydrogen. As with other alkali metals, it forms amalgams with mercury and it alloys with gold, cesium, sodium, and potassium. It colors a flame yellowish violet. Rubidium metal can be prepared by reducing rubidium chloride with calcium, and by a number of other methods. It must be kept under a dry mineral oil or in a vacuum or inert atmosphere. 

Figure 8.29(b) shows that an L emission XRF spectmm is much more complex than a K emission spectmm. This is illustrated by the L spectmm of gold in Figure 8.31. Apart from those labelled I and p, the transitions fall into three groups, labelled a, p and y, the most intense within each group being Mj, Pi and Yi, respectively.

Treatment of impure gold is largely via the Miller process (30) in which chlorine is bubbled through the molten metal and converts the base metals to chlorides, which volatilise. Silver is converted to the chloride, which is molten and can be poured. The remaining gold is less pure (99.6%) than that produced by the WohlwiU process and may require additional treatment such as electrolysis. If platinum-group metals (qv) are present, the chlorine process is unsuitable. 

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