Iodide reducing agent

CALCIUM lODATE (7789-80-2) A powerful oxidizer. Violent reaction with phospho-nium iodide, reducing agents, copper, aluminum. Forms sensitive explosive mixture with carbon dust, phosphorus, organic matter, powdered metals. Incompatible with arsenic, carbon, metal sulfides, sulfur. 

Trihydrate, dark green, odorless crystals with bronze luster or cryst powder. Absorption max 668, 609 tint. One gram dissolves in about 25 ml water, about 65 ml alcohol sol in chloroform. In sol in ether. In aq soln it is decolorized by Zn dust and dil H2SOt, but color is restored on exposure to air and more rapidly upon addn of NH,OH, Forms double salts with many inorganic salts. Incompat Caustic alkali, dichromates, alkali iodides, reducing agents. 

It is believed that the red phosphorus is the true reducing agent and the iodine (or iodide) functions as a hydrogen carrier. This proc ure replaces the obsolete method of heating with red phosphorus and concentrated hydriodic acid in a sealed tube. 

Noncnzymc-Catalyzcd Reactions The variable-time method has also been used to determine the concentration of nonenzymatic catalysts. Because a trace amount of catalyst can substantially enhance a reaction s rate, a kinetic determination of a catalyst s concentration is capable of providing an excellent detection limit. One of the most commonly used reactions is the reduction of H2O2 by reducing agents, such as thiosulfate, iodide, and hydroquinone. These reactions are catalyzed by trace levels of selected metal ions. Eor example the reduction of H2O2 by U... 

Iodide ion, a moderately effective reducing agent, is used extensively for the deterrnination of oxidants. In such appHcations, the iodine Hberated by reaction between the analyte and the unmeasured excess of potassium iodide is ordinarily titrated with a standard solution of sodium thiosulfate. The reaction is as foHows ... 

The monohydrate is stable up to 540°C, but it is very sensitive to reducing agents. It is slightly soluble in water, insoluble in alcohol, and more soluble in aqueous solutions of iodides. It is mainly used in animal and fowl feeds. 

Many mercury compounds are labile and easily decomposed by light, heat, and reducing agents. In the presence of organic compounds of weak reducing activity, such as amines (qv), aldehydes (qv), and ketones (qv), compounds of lower oxidation state and mercury metal are often formed. Only a few mercury compounds, eg, mercuric bromide/77< 5 7-/7, mercurous chloride, mercuric s A ide[1344-48-5] and mercurous iodide [15385-57-6] are volatile and capable of purification by sublimation. This innate lack of stabiUty in mercury compounds makes the recovery of mercury from various wastes that accumulate with the production of compounds of economic and commercial importance relatively easy (see Recycling). 

The most commonly used reducing agent is iodide ion ... 

Phosphonic acid and hydrogen phosphonates are used as strong but slow-acting reducing agents. They cause precipitation of heavy metals from solutions of their salts and reduce sulfur dioxide to sulfur, and iodine to iodide in neutral or alkaline solution. 

Various reducing agents, eg, hydrogen iodide, can abstract chlorine from sulfur monochloride leaving elemental sulfur ... 

Chlorate Analysis. Chlorate ion concentration is determined by reaction with a reducing agent. Ferrous sulfate is preferred for quaHty control (111), but other reagents, such as arsenious acid, stannous chloride, and potassium iodide, have also been used (112). When ferrous sulfate is used, a measured excess of the reagent is added to a strong hydrochloric acid solution of the chlorate for reduction, after which the excess ferrous sulfate is titrated with an oxidant, usually potassium permanganate or potassium dichromate. 

The anhydrous halides, chromium (ITT) fluoride [7788-97-8], CrF, chromium (ITT) chloride [10025-73-7], CrCl, chromium (ITT) bromide [10031-25-1], CrBr, and chromium (ITT) iodide [13569-75-0], Crl, can be made by the reaction of Cr metal and the corresponding halogen at elevated temperatures (12,36). Other methods of synthesis for the haUdes are also possible (36—38). All of the haUdes have a layer stmcture and contain Cr(III) in an octahedral geometry. They are only slightly soluble in water but dissolve slowly when Cr(II) or a reducing agent such as Zn or Mg is added. 

The unique advantage of the nickel system is that it can produce either stmctures of i7j -I,4-polybutadiene, /n j -I,4-polybutadiene, or a mixture of both depending on the reducing agent and the co-catalyst used. For example, chloride catalyst yields i7j -I,4-polybutadiene, whereas bromide or iodide yields /n j -I,4-polybutadiene. The counterion also has an effect on the polymer microstmcture. A 50/50 cis- 4l/n j -I,4-polybutadiene has been prepared using a carboxyhc counterion (95—105). 

Benzopinacol has been prepared by the action of phenylmag-nesium bromide on benzil 1 or methyl benzilate. Usually it has been obtained by reduction of benzophenone, the reducing agents being zinc and sulfuric acid or acetic acid, aluminum amalgam, and magnesium and magnesium iodide. The present... 

The resulting solution has a much lower vapour pressure than a solution of iodine in pure water, and consequently the loss by volatilisation is considerably diminished. Nevertheless, the vapour pressure is still appreciable so that precautions should always be taken to keep vessels containing iodine closed except during the actual titrations. When an iodide solution of iodine is titrated with a reductant, the free iodine reacts with the reducing agent, this displaces the equilibrium to the left, and eventually all the tri-iodide is decomposed the solution therefore behaves as though it were a solution of free iodine. 

Potassium iodate is a powerful oxidising agent, but the course of the reaction is governed by the conditions under which it is employed. The reaction between potassium iodate and reducing agents such as iodide ion or arsenic(III) oxide in solutions of moderate acidity (0.1-2.0M hydrochloric acid) stops at the stage when the iodate is reduced to iodine ... 

If an electron is transferred from a reducing agent to an arenediazonium ion, an aryldiazenyl radical (8.47) is formed. As discussed in this section, the latter dissociates rapidly into an aryl radical and N2 (Scheme 8-28). This type of dediazoniation was observed by Griess (1864 c), albeit not in our present formulation. He found that arenediazonium ions formed iodoarenes and N2 in the presence of iodide ions. More important for synthetic organic chemistry were some dediazonia-tions discovered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which are catalyzed by metals and metal ions, namely the Sandmeyer, Pschorr, Meerwein, and related syntheses (see Ch. 10). 

Self-Test K.3B When sulfuric acid reacts with sodium iodide, sodium iodate and sulfur dioxide are produced. Identify the oxidizing and reducing agents in this reaction. 

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