Mercury chloride compounds

The verification of the concentrations of the calibration solutions was considered to be a important aspect to achieve traceability. A pure methyl mercury chloride compound was prepared for the certification, the purity of the calibrant of which was verified by C, H, Hg and Cl elemental analysis and was found to be higher than 99.8%. This compound was distributed to the participants in the certification both for calibration purposes and as a mean of verification of the calibrant used in their laboratory. 

Exists as the (Hg —Hg) ion. Other polymercury cations, e.g. Hgj (Hg plus AsFj), Hg4 etc., are also known. All positive oxidation state compounds of Hg are readily reduced to the metal, mercury chlorides... 

Mercury(I) compounds in solution give a white precipitate with chloride ion. blackened by ammonia (p. 437) alkalis and reducing agents generally produce black or grey mercury from mercury(I) compounds. 

Merkuro-. mercurous, mercury (I), -azetat, n. mercurous acetate. mercury(I) acetate, -chlorld, n. mercurous chloride, mercury(I) choride. -chrom, n. (Pharm.) mercuro chrome, -jodid, n. n ercurous iodide, mer-cury(I) iodide. -nitrat, n. mercurous nitrate, mercury(I) nitrste. -oxyd, n. mercurous oxide, mercury(I) oxide, -salz, n. mercurous salt, mercury (I) salt, -sulfat, n. mercurouasulfate, mercury(I) sulfate, -sulfid, n. mercurous sulfide, mercury(I) sulfide, -verbindung, /. mercurous compound, mercury (I) compound. 

Low concentrations (10 /iM or less) of mercury have little effect on cellular viability and stimulate RNA and DNA synthesis, whereas higher concentrations are cytotoxic and inhibit DNA, RNA and protein synthesis [145, 146, 246-248 ]. Mercuric chloride is able to selectively block CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cells in S phase, which is related to the chemical reactivity and uptake into the cells [249], The cytotoxicity of mercury(II) compounds is probably related to their ability to inhibit DNA polymerase a activity and inhibit not only DNA synthesis but also DNA repair [250, 251]. 

Compounds Methyl mercury ethyl mercury chloride, dimethyl mercury... 

Again several alkyls add—molybdenum, chromium, iron, cobalt, nickel, the alkali metal alkyls and aluminum alkyls react. A tin alkoxide has recently been studied by Russian workers and found to add to acetylenes. Mercury chloride, of course, adds and two cobalt—cobalt bonded compounds add to acetylene. The second is questionable because it dissociates in solution and the reaction may be a radical reaction, one cobalt adding to each end of the triple bond. 

Mercury may be present in air in different chemical states such as the elemental form (as a vapour or adsorbed on particular matter) or in the form of volatile mercury compounds (mercury chloride, methyl-mercuric chloride, and dimethyl mercury). Although elemental mercury is only one of the mercury forms which is not as toxic as its organic or ionic forms, analytical determination of elemental mercury is of special importance. Such analysis is used not only for determination of elemental mercury in environment, but also as a method for determination of other forms of mercury after reductive treatment. 

Most chloride compounds are soluble, except silver chloride (AgCl), lead chloride (PbCl2), and mercury I chloride (Hg2Cl2). 

Following the preparation of 4.79, a number of other cyclic mercury crown compounds have been synthesised, which do exhibit halide complexation behaviour. Compound 4.80, forms a 1 1 polymer with bromide in the solid state in which the Hr anions perch above the Hg3 plane. The Hg—Br distances of 3.07-3.39A are considerably longer than normal Hg—Br covalent bonds (about 2.54A).61 The compound also binds SCN- with similarly long bonds as shown in Figure 4.34.60 The analogous chloride complex has a 3 2 stoichiometry suggesting a triple-decker sandwich of type [4.80 Cl 4.80 Cl 4.80]2. ... 

Mercury (II) chloride, compound with tri-a-butylphosphine, 6 90 Mercury (II) chloride dithiourea, 6 27... 

Anodic limits on mercury. Mercury is readily oxidized, particularly in the presence of anions that precipitate or complex mercury or mercury ) ions, such as the halides, cyanide, thiosulfate, hydroxide, or thiocyanate. For this reason, mercury is seldom used to study anodic processes except for those subtances that are easily oxidized, for example, Cr(II), Cu(I), and Fe(II). Under carefully controlled conditions, mercury can be coated with a thin layer of mercury chloride such that it does not interfere with electron transfer in the oxidation of a number of organic compounds, particularly amines.66... 

The mercury containing compound, thimerosal, has found use as an antimicrobial agent and is employed in biological vaccines and contact lens solutions. The decomposition products, methy lmercury chloride, dimethy lmercury, and mercury (III) chloride, have been separated by using RPLC with a C18 column and a 3% acetonitrile mobile phase [27,31]. Long-term degradation of thimerosal was demonstrated with complete recovery for all species. 

With Organometallic Compounds 1.2.1. With Aryl Mercury Chlorides... 

It is most conveniently stored in glass ampuls. Several other preparations for this compound are known including reactions of dihydroxy(phenyl)borane and boron trichloride12 13 or phosphorus pentachloride,14 2,4,6-triphenylboroxin, [C6H5BO]3, with phosphorus pentachloride,14 phenyl mercury chloride with boron trichloride,15 and benzene with boron trichloride.16... 

The reaction is specific in that the allyl group retains its configuration in the course of transfer. Thus reactions of metallic mercury with an asymmetrically substituted 7r-allylpalladium chloride (for example, crotyl-palladium chloride) might equally afford both cis- and /raMr-2-butenyl-mercury chloride isomers, as well as the 1-butenyl compound. Hence generally three compounds could be expected in the reaction. However, it has been found 161) that essentially the reaction yields only trans-crotylmercury chloride (based on infrared spectra). In the case of 1-phenyl-77-allylpalladium chloride and l-acetyl-2-methyl-7r-allylpalladium chloride, again only the respective y-substituted /raw-allylmercury halides have been found. Since such conditions do not allow the allyl rearrangement 162), formation of the /ra r-allylmercury derivatives is evidence that the... 

With Metallic Salts. Like various other organic sulphides, dichloroethyl sulphide readily reacts with the salts of the heavy metals. Thus with gold or platinum chloride, compounds are formed which, being insoluble in water, may be employed for the detection of the sulphide (see p. 248). With copper or mercury chloride stable additive chlorides are formed of the following type ... 

The mercuri-bis compound reacts with mercuric chloride, bromide, iodide, and thiocyanate, giving good yields of the abo ve salts. 

In a study of six mercury compounds, mercury chloride, mercury nitrate, sodium ethylmercurithi-osalicylate, methyl mercury chloride, mercury acetate and phenylmercury acetate in MDCK cells, LLC-PKl cells and human primary proximal tubular cells (hPTC) and non-renal cell lines (SAOS and Hep G2) it was found that all mercury compounds were toxic to all cell types as evidenced by neutral red uptake, thymidine incorporation and the MTT assay [189]. However, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, methyl mercury chloride and phenylmercury acetate were one order of magnitude more toxic than the other compounds. In addition the GSH synthesis inhibitor L-buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) potentiated the toxicity of all mercury compounds [189]. In a study using primary rabbit proximal tubular cells it was also shown that methyl mercury chloride is more toxic than mercury chloride [190]. Differences in the extent and rate of metal uptake were also evident. Maximum cellular uptake of Hg " occurred within 6-24 hr after exposure and was not concentration-dependent, whereas maximum uptake of CHgHg" occurred within 3 hr of exposure and was concentration- dependent [190]. 

Mercury metal and most compounds of mercury are highly toxic. Interestingly enough, scientists became aware of this fact only quite recently. However, the toxicity of some mercury compounds has been known for many centuries. One form of mercury chloride known as calomel, for example, was sometimes used as a poison to kill people. It was also once used extensively to kill fungi and control maggots in agricultural crops. 

Fig. 2 Chromatogram of a standard mixture after complexa-tion with sodium diethyldithiocarbamate. Composition of the standard mercury dichloride, methylmercury chloride, ethyl-mercury chloride, methoxyethylmercury chloride, ethoxyethyl-mercury chloride, phenylmercury chloride, and tolymercury chloride. [Reprinted from A. Knochel and H. Potgeter, Interfacing supercritical fluid chromatography with atomic fluorescence spectrometry for the determination of organomercury compounds,/. Chromatogr. A 786 192 (1997). Copyright 1997, with permission from Elsevier Science.]...

Mercuric chloride is used in preservatives for wood and anatomical specimens, embalming solutions, disinfectants, photographic intensifiers, leather tanning, seed treatments, analytical reagents for organic syntheses, and the manufacture of other mercury-containing compounds. Pharmaceuticals containing mercuric chloride have also been used therapeutically as topical antiseptics and disinfectants. 

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