Mercury compounds lanthanides

Thus, the synthesis of triphenylscandium is a salt-elimination reaction (or metathesis) whilst the route for the lanthanide phenyls involves a redox reaction. The former has the problem of producing LiCl, which is often significantly soluble in organic solvents and contaminates the desired product, whilst the latter involves disposal of mercury waste, as well as handling toxic organomercury compounds. 

It is alloyed with about 4% A1 and 0.02% Mg. The aluminum strengthens the zinc and also prevents the molten alloy from attacking the steel pressure casting dies. Zinc readily reacts with mercury or will displace mercury from a mercury(II) salt to form an amalgam that is usefril for reductions, as in the preparation of compounds of the lower oxidation states of transition metals and lanthanides (e.g. Cr , V , Eu°, dimeric Mo ) and in analytical chemistry (e.g. in the Jones reductor see Analytical Chemistry of the Transition Elements). 

Analytical chemistry makes use chiefly of the native luminescence lanthanides(III), U(VI), mercury-like ions and Cr(III) compounds. They are distinguished by temperature-quenching of luminescence. Therefore, the determination (espcially of Cr(III) and mercury-like ions) is performed at low temperatures (usually 77 K). A very simple sample cell compartment unit (Fig. 5) permits the luminescence of small analyte volumes to be measured366). Also, solvents which do not solidify to clear glasses at low temperature can be used. This is of practical importance. 

Many elements such as tin, copper, zinc, lead, mercury, silver, platinum, antimony, arsenic, and gold, which are so essential to our needs and civilization, are among some of the rarest elements in the earth s crust. These are made available to us only by the processes of concentration in ore bodies. Some of the so-called rare-earth elements have been found to be much more plentiful than originally thought and are about as abundant as uranium, mercury, lead, or bismuth. The least abundant rare-earth or lanthanide element, thulium, is now believed to be more plentiful on earth than silver, cadmium, gold, or iodine, for example. Rubidium, the 16th most abundant element, is more plentiful than chlorine while its compounds are little known in chemistry and commerce. 

In some instances the reaction is accelerated by either amalgamation or the addition of a catalyst (e.g. iodine or a mercury(n) halide, Eq. 6.11 °) while the stoichiometric reaction of mercury and thallium compounds with lanthanide metals has been shown to be a viable route to aryloxide derivatives (Eqs 6.12 and 6.13 ). 

Considering the denticity of ligand products typically assembled, the most often encountered are tetradentate macrocycles, followed by hexadentate species. Potentially tridentate macrocyclic products are described for nickel(II), copper(II), bor-on(III) and molybdenum(O) silver(I) and mercury(II) promote assembling penta-dentate and hexadentate macrocycles thallium(I), strontium(II), lanthanum(III) and the lanthanides(IIl) from Ce to Gd (Pm was not studied bccau.sc of its radioactivity) hexadentate products and the metal ions from Tb to Lu promote the formation of tetra- and hexa-dentate macrocyclic ligand products. Variable denticity of synthesised systems is conunon to most first-row transition elements as well as to alkaline metal ions which serve mainly to form crown ethers and related compounds. 

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