Mond process

C (Mond process). The silver-white metal is ccp. The metal is not tarnished by air but is attacked by acids (except cone. HNO3). It is resistant to Fj. It is used extensively in alloys, particularly in steels and cast iron and as a coinage metal. Used in glass (green) in catalysts (particularly for hydrogenation). Western world production 1981 662 000 tonnes. 

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Nickel Purification. The Mond process for nickel purification is based on the formation of volatile nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)4, which is stable... 

Easily decomposed, volatile metal carbonyls have been used in metal deposition reactions where heating forms the metal and carbon monoxide. Other products such as metal carbides and carbon may also form, depending on the conditions. The commercially important Mond process depends on the thermal decomposition of Ni(CO)4 to form high purity nickel. In a typical vapor deposition process, a purified inert carrier gas is passed over a metal carbonyl containing the metal to be deposited. The carbonyl is volatilized, with or without heat, and carried over a heated substrate. The carbonyl is decomposed and the metal deposited on the substrate. A number of papers have appeared concerning vapor deposition techniques and uses (170—179). 

Somewhat higher pressures and temperatures (e.g. 20 atm and 150°C) are used to form the carbonyl in modem Canadian plant, but the essential principle of the Mond process is retained. 

On the basis of the 18-electron rule, the d s configuration is expected to lead to carbonyls of formula [M(CO)4] and this is found for nickel. [Ni(CO)4], the first metal carbonyl to be discovered, is an extremely toxic, colourless liquid (mp —19.3°, bp 42.2°) which is tetrahedral in the vapour and in the solid (Ni-C 184pm, C-O 115 pm). Its importance in the Mond process for manufacturing nickel metal has already been mentioned as has the absence of stable analogues of Pd and Pt. It may be germane to add that the introduction of halides (which are a-bonded) reverses the situation [NiX(CO)3] (X = Cl, Br, I) are very unstable, the yellow [Pd"(CO)Cl2]n is somewhat less so, whereas the colourless [Pt (CO)2Cl2] and [PtX3(CO)] are quite stable. 

Ni is found in many ores in combination with S, As Sb, the chief sources being the minerals chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pentlandite. Ni ores are of two types, sulfide and oxide, the former accounting for two-thirds of the world s consumption. Sulfide ores are refined by flotation and roasting to sintered Ni oxide, and either sold as such or reduced to metal, which is cast into anodes and refined electrolytically or by the carbonyl (Mond) process. Oxide ores are treated by hydrometallurgjcal refining, eg, leaching with ammonia. Much secondary Ni is recovered from scrap (Refs 6 7) 1... 

About 70% of the western world s supply of nickel comes from iron and nickel sulfide ores that were brought close to the surface nearly 2 billion years ago by the violent impact of a huge meteor at Sudbury, Ontario. The ore is first roasted (heated in air) to form nickel(II) oxide, which is reduced to the metal either elec-trolytically or by reaction with hydrogen gas in the first step of the Mond process ... 

Mond process The purification of nickel by the formation and decomposition of nickel carbonyl, monomer A small molecule from which a polymer is formed. Examples CH2=CH2 for polyethylene NH2(CH2)6NH2 for nylon, monoprotic acid A Bronsted acid with one acidic hydrogen atom. Example CH COOI I. monosaccharide An individual unit from which carbohydrates are considered to be composed. Example C6H(206, glucose, multiple bond A double or triple bond between two atoms. 

CVD developed slowly in the next fifty years and was limited mostly to extraction and pyrometallurgy for the production of high-purity refractory metals such as tantalum, titanium, and zirconium. Several classical CVD reactionswere developedatthattimeincludingthecarbonyl cycle (the Mond process), the iodide decomposition (the de Boer-Van Arkelprocess)andthemagnesium-reduction reaction (the Kroll process). 

According to the free energy change associated with the pertinent reaction, nickel will form nickel tetracarbonyl at low temperatures, and this carbonyl will become unstable and revert back to nickel and carbon monoxide at moderate temperatures. The Mond process for refining nickel is based on these features. In this process, impure nickel is exposed to carbon monoxide gas at 50 °C, whereby volatile nickel tetracarbonyl (Ni(CO)4) forms. No impurity present in the crude nickel reacts with carbon monoxide. Since formation of the... 

Because Ni(CO)4 is volatile (b.p. 43 °C) and cobalt will not react under these conditions, this process afforded a method for separating Ni from Co by the process now known as the Mond process. Although there are many complexes known that contain both carbonyl and other ligands (mixed carbonyl complexes), the number containing only a metal and carbonyl ligands is small. They are known as binary metal carbonyls, and they are listed in Table 21.1. The structures of most of these compounds are shown later in Figures 21.1 through 21.3. 

Figure 17.9 also indicates that hydrogen gas can be an effective reductant for CU2O, PbO, NiO, and CoO but not for FeO, ZnO, etc. Indeed, as noted in Section 17.4, NiO can be reduced with hydrogen (at 400 °C) to give crude nickel for the Mond process the gas used is actually water-gas (Section 9.3), and the CO content is used in making the tetracarbonylnickel. 

Trace the steps in the production of high purity nickel metal from crude sulfide ore (a) by the Sherritt Gordon ammonia leach process, (6) by the Mond process, and (c) by acid leaching. 

Nickel tetracarbonyl is a highly toxic volatile colorless liquid that is shipped in cylinders pressurized with carbon monoxide.8 Its vapor is about six times as dense as air. Purification of nickel by the Mond process is based on the decomposition of Ni(CO)4, the reverse of Eq. 15.3. The yellow-red iron pentacarbonyl slowly decomposes in air and is sensitive to light and heal. In feet. Fe-jfCOJy, an orange solid, is prepared by photolysis of Fe(CO). ... 

The Mond process separates nickel from other metals by passing CO over the hot metal mixture. The nickel reacts to form a volatile compound (called nickel carbonyl), which is then swept away by the gas stream. The reaction is... 

In (1) the electrolytic process, a nickel of 99.9% purity is produced, along with slimes which may contain gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, and cobalt, which are subject to further refining and recovery. In (2) the Mond process, the nickel oxide is combined with carbon monoxide to form nickel carbonyl gas, Ni(CO)4. The impurities, including cobalt, are left as a solid residue. Upon fuitlier heating of the gas to about 180°C, the nickel carbonyl is decomposed, the freed nickel condensing on nickel shot and the carbon monoxide recycled. The Mond process also makes a nickel of 99.9% purity. 

As mentioned earlier, nickel carbonyl is a volatile intermediate in the Mond process for nickel refining. This compound also is used for vapor plating of nickel in the semiconductor industry, and as a catalyst in the chemical and petrochemical industries. The toxicity of the compound has been known for many years Exposure of laboratory animals to the compound has induced a number of ocular anomalies, including aiioplidialiiiiaandinicrophtlialmia, and has been shown to be a carcinogenic for rats. 

Although nickel carbonyl is intensely poisonous, it is used in the Mond process for the refinement of nickel (see Section 16.3). Complex formation is also responsible for carbon monoxide s toxicity it attaches more strongly than oxygen to the iron in hemoglobin and prevents it from accepting oxygen from the air in the lungs. As a result, the victim suffocates. 

The Mond process for purifying nickel involves the reaction of impure nickel with carbon monoxide at about 150°C to give nickel tetracarbonyl. The nickel tetracar-bonyl then decomposes to pure nickel at about 230°C ... 

In the Mond process for purifying nickel, the volatile nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)4, is produced by the reaction below. How much CO is used up per kilogram of nickel ... 

Although the hydrogenation of hydrogen cyanide to methylamine was achieved as early as 1863 (Debus, 1), the history of modern catalytic hydrogenation began in 1897 with the discovery by Paul Sabatier and R. Senderens of the vapor phase hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds over a nickel catalyst (Sabatier and Senderens, 2). Sabatier has said that his interest in the action of nickel was provoked by the newly discovered Mond process for the purification of nickel by the formation and decomposition of nickel carbonyl. The capacity of nickel... 

Space will not be devoted here to emphasis of the vast technological importance of iron and the steels nor to the discussion of ferrous metallurgy. However, typical processes for obtaining cobalt and nickel from natural sources are outlined in Table 24-1. The process for cobalt is somewhat oversimplified, for cobalt ores often contain, in addition to iron and arsenic, nickel, silver, or copper, which must also be removed. Note that nickel is conveniently purified by conversion to its volatile carbonyl, Ni(CO)4, unstable at high temperatures Mond process). 

The Mond Process 3 is based upon the fact that nickel readily combines with carbon monoxide at 50-80° C. to form a volatile carbonyl compound of composition Ni(CO)4, which decomposes at higher tem-... 

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