Nickel cyanide, formation

Isomerism of the but-3-enoic acids into the E-but-2-enoic acids is base-catalysed (Table 8.8), whereas the formation of the other isomers indicates the participation of rt-allylnickel complexes in the reaction. Potassium nickel tetracarbonyl is a considerably poorer catalyst, compared with nickel cyanide, whereas nickel sulphate and nickel iodide are ineffective catalysts. 

Synonym Neatsfoot Oil Necatorina Nechexane Neutral Ahhonium Pluoride Neutral Anhydrous Calcium Hypochlorite Neutral Lead Acetate Neutral Nicotine Sulfate Neutral Potassium Chromate Neutral Sodium Chromatetanhydrous Neutral Verdigris Nickel Acetate Nickel Acetate Tetrahyorate Nickel Ammonium Sulfate Nickel Ammonium Sulfate Hexahydrate Nickel Bromide Nickel Bromide Trihydrate Nickel Carbonyl Nickel Chloride Nickel Chloride Nickel Cyanide Nickel Iiu Fluoborate Nickel Fluoroborate Solution Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Formate Nickel Formate Dihyorate Nickel Nitrate Nickel Nitrate Hexahydrate Nickel Sulfate Nickel Tetracarbokyl Nickelous Acetate Nickelous Sulfate Nicotine Nicotine Sulfate Nifos Nitralin Nitram O-Nitraniline P-Nitraniline Nitric Acid Nitric Acid, Aluminum Salt Nitric Acid, Iron (111) Salt Compound Name Oil Neatsfoot Carbon Tetrachloride Neohexane Ammonium Fluoride Calcium Hypochlorite Lead Acetate Nicotine Sulfate Potassium Chromate Sodium Chromate Copper Acetate Nickel Acetate Nickel Acetate Nickel Ammonium Sulfate Nickel Ammonium Sulfate Nickel Bromide Nickel Bromide Nickel Carbonyl Nickel Chloride Nickel Chloride Nickel Cyanide Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Formate Nickel Formate Nickel Nitrate Nickel Nitrate Nickel Sulfate Nickel Carbonyl Nickel Acetate Nickel Sulfate Nicotine Nicotine Sulfate Tetraethyl Pyrophosphate Nitralin Ammonium Nitrate 2-Nitroaniline 4-Nitroaniline Nitric Acid Aluminum Nitrate Ferric Nitrate... 

Otherwise, unusual valency states are often observed in cyanide complexes. A Mn complex K5Mn(CN)6 has been reported here the stable 18-electron configuration causes the valency of manganese to take the very unusual value of one, and the compound is formed in spite of the extremely unfavourable cation anion ratio. Still more remarkable are the complex nickel cyanides. KGN and Ni(CN)2 form a complex K2Ni(CN)4, in which sixteen electrons are involved in the bond formation. The diamagnetism and the square structure of the Ni(CN)4 ion show that the bonding is due to dsp2 hybridization. 

In a covalent complex of bivalent nickel such as the nickel cyanide ion [Ni(CN)4] — the 26 inner electrons of the nickel atom can be placed in pairs in the Is, 2s, three 2p, 3s, three 3p, and four of the 3d orbitals. This leaves available for use in bond formation the fifth 3d orbital as well as the 4s and three 4p orbitals. It is found on hybridizing these orbitals that four strong bond orbitals directed to the corners of a square can be formed.4 The four orbitals (written with the bonds directed along +x, —x, and — y) are... 

The moist cake of residue and paper is transferred to a small dish and the Alter paper is peeled clean from the solid, which is then re-moistened with about 10ml of water. On addition of a solution of 7g more of potassium cyanide in 15ml of water, the nickel cyanide dissolves with the formation of an orange-red solution. The clear liquid is evaporated to crystallization on the steam bath, cooled in ice, suction-filtered, and dried in air. 

Addition of potassium cyanide to aqueous solutions of the salt causes a marked deepening of the color, probably due to the formation of the unstable hexacyanonickelate (XI) ion. Mineral acids decompose the complex salt to form nickel cyanide alkaline oxidants destroy the material with the production of black hydrated nickel (III) oxide. 

Nitrosylation of nickel cyanide has long-standing utility as a method of nitroxyl detection (171, 172). Product formation is generally observable only in... 

Detection of traces of nickel in cobalt salts. The solution containing the cobalt and nickel is treated with excess concentrated potassium cyanide solution, followed by 30 per cent hydrogen peroxide whereby the complex cyanides [Co(CN)6]3- and [Ni(CN)4]4 respectively are formed. Upon adding 40 per cent formaldehyde solution the hexacyanocobaltate(III) is unaffected (and hence remains inactive to dimethylglyoxime) whereas the tetracyanato-nickelate(II) decomposes with the formation of nickel cyanide, which reacts immediately with the dimethylglyoxime. 

A drawback connected with the tendency of Ni(0) to undergo oxidative addition of HCN is the formation of inactive nickel cyanide complexes. Such inhibition can be overcome, however, by keeping the HCN concentration low. This also has the further advantage of preventing sudden temperature increases arising from the high exothermicity of the reactions with HCN. 

The entrance into the catalytic cycle from complex 5 may occur via a small equilibrium concentration of Ni-(la)-(MVN) complex6 (pathA, Schemes) and/or via oxidative addition of HCN to generate the species Ni-[la]-HCN, 7 (pathB). In either event, formation of the hydridoalkene complex Ni-[1]-(MVN)(H)(CN), 8, occurs and is followed by an insertion reaction to produce the (ri -benzyl)nickel cyanide intermediate 9. Although this allyl-type species has not been directly detected, the exclusive formation of the branched nitrile supports its intermediacy. Analogous intermediates have been postulated in the hydrocyanation of 1,3-butadiene with NilPlO-o-tolylljjj or Ni[P(OEt)3]4 and in the hydrocyanation of styrene with Ni[P(0-p-tolyl)3]4. Examples of other nick-el-benzyl complexes exhibiting similar allylic interactions in the solution and solid state are also known. 

A standard condition has been optimized for this reaction, in which the aryl amine is diazotized in 10 times its amount of acetic acid, followed by the addition of one equivalent of cuprous halide in hydrohalic acid. Under these conditions, the acetate salt of aryl amine is relatively soluble, and less froth and tarry material are formed during diazo transformation. In addition, chlorination, bromination, and iodonation of p-haloaniline to dihalobenzenes under such standard conditions give almost comparable average yields. Other modifications of this reaction include the formation of phenyl selenocyanate by the reaction with potassium selenocyanate, and aryl nitrile by the reaction with nickel cyanide. Moreover, this reaction has been extended to the preparation of phenyl thiocyanate, phenyl isothiocyanate and aromatic sulfonyl chloride. ... 

Nickel Bromide Nickel Bromide Nickel Carbonyl Nickel Chloride Nickel Chloride Nickel Cyanide Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Fluoroborate Nickel Formate Nickel Formate Nickel Nitrate Nickel Nitrate Nickel Sulfate Nickel Carbonyl Nickel Acetate Nickel Sulfate Nicotine Nicotine Sulfate Tetraethyl Pyrophosphate Nitralin... 

Cyanide ions yield a green precipitate of nickel cyanide Ni(CN)2 soluble in excess of cyanide ions by the formation of the tetracyanonickelate(II) complex (or nickelo-cyanide anion) [Ni(CN)4] . The complex is moderately stable. It is decomposed by adding mineral acids, which liberate hydrocyanic acid and precipitate nickel cyanide. In a second stage, nickel cyanide itself decomposes into Ni + and hydrocyanic acid ... 

Nickel. The anion [Ni2(CN)e] " bears some resemblance to the much-studied [Co(CN)6] . Hence kinetics of reduction of butadiene in aqueous solution in the presence of the former anion have been investigated. The first step is slow formation of the complex [Ni2(CN)e( -C4H,)] ". This intermediate then gives rise to species containing Tr-l-methylallyl or tt-butadienyl complexes of nickel cyanide which are the immediate precursors of the reduction process. Two precursors with two subsequent reduction paths are needed to accommodate observations of different product distributions under different experimental conditions. Rates of hydrogenation of styrene and of phenylacetylene depend on solvent and on composition for mixed Ni +-acac-AlEt3 catalysts. ... 

P-Phenylethylamine is conveniently prepared by the hydrogenation under pressure of benzyl cyanide with Raney nickel catalyst (see Section VI,5) in the presence of either a saturated solution of dry ammonia in anhydrous methyl alcohol or of liquid ammonia the latter are added to suppress the formation of the secondary amine, di- P phenylethylamine ... 

The first polyphosphino maeroeyeles designed speeifieally for use as transition metal binders were reported in 1977 in back-to-baek eommunications by Rosen and Kyba and their eoworkers. The maeroeyeles reported in these papers were quite similar in some respeets, but the synthetic approaches were markedly different. DelDonno and Rosen began with bis-phosphinate 18. Treatment of the latter with Vitride reducing agent and phosphinate 19, led to the tris-phosphine,20. Formation of the nickel (II) complex of 20 followed by double alkylation (cyclization) and then removal of Ni by treatment of the complex with cyanide, led to 21 as illustrated in Eq. (6.15). The overall yield for this sequence is about 10%. 

Cyanoanthracene, 50,55 p-Cyanobenzenesulfonamide, reduction with Raney nickel alloy to p-for-mylbenzenesulfonamide, 51,20 p-Cyano-N,N-diethylaniline, 50, S4 Cyanohydrins, formation by use of alkyl-aluminum cyanides, 52, 96... 

Nickel may he measured quantitatively hy several microanalytical gravimetric methods that include (l)formation of a red precipitate with dimethyl-glyoxime, (2) precipitation as a hlack sulfide with ammonium sulfide, (3) precipitating as a complex cyanide hy treating with alkali cyanide and bromine, and (4) precipitation as a yellow complex hy treating an ammoniacal solution of nickel with dicyandiamide sulfate (Grossman s reagent), followed hy the addition of potassium hydroxide. All of these methods can separate nickel from cobalt in solution. 

Additive or more-than-additive toxicity of free cyanide to aquatic fauna has been reported in combination with ammonia (Smith et al. 1979 Leduc et al. 1982 Alabaster et al. 1983 Leduc 1984) or arsenic (Leduc 1984). However, conflicting reports on the toxicity of mixtures of HCN with zinc or chromium (Towill et al. 1978 Smith et al. 1979 Leduc et al. 1982 Leduc 1984) require clarification. Formation of the nickelocyanide complex markedly reduces the toxicity of both cyanide and nickel at high concentrations in alkaline pH. At lower concentrations and acidic pH, solutions increase in toxicity by more than 1000-fold, owing to dissociation of the metallo-cyanide complex to form hydrogen cyanide (Towill et al. 1978). Mixtures of cyanide and ammonia may interfere with seaward migration of Atlantic salmon smolts under conditions of low dissolved oxygen (Alabaster et al. 1983). The 96-h toxicity of mixtures of sodium cyanide and nickel sulfate to fathead minnows is influenced by water alkalinity and pH. Toxicity decreased with increasing alkalinity and pH from 0.42 mg CN/L at 5 mg CaCOj/L and pH 6.5, to 1.4 mg CN/L at 70 mg CaCOj/L and pH 7.5 to 730 mg CN/L at 192 mg CaCOj/L and pH 8.0 (Doudoroff 1956). 

We can now make sensible guesses as to the order of rate constant for water replacement from coordination complexes of the metals tabulated. (With the formation of fused rings these relationships may no longer apply. Consider, for example, the slow reactions of metal ions with porphyrine derivatives (20) or with tetrasulfonated phthalocyanine, where the rate determining step in the incorporation of metal ion is the dissociation of the pyrrole N-H bond (164).) The reason for many earlier (mostly qualitative) observations on the behavior of complex ions can now be understood. The relative reaction rates of cations with the anion of thenoyltrifluoroacetone (113) and metal-aqua water exchange data from NMR studies (69) are much as expected. The rapid exchange of CN " with Hg(CN)4 2 or Zn(CN)4-2 or the very slow Hg(CN)+, Hg+2 isotopic exchange can be understood, when the dissociative rate constants are estimated. Reactions of the type M+a + L b = ML+(a "b) can be justifiably assumed rapid in the proposed mechanisms for the redox reactions of iron(III) with iodide (47) or thiosulfate (93) ions or when copper(II) reacts with cyanide ions (9). Finally relations between kinetic and thermodynamic parameters are shown by a variety of complex ions since the dissociation rate constant dominates the thermodynamic stability constant of the complex (127). A recently observed linear relation between the rate constant for dissociation of nickel complexes with a variety of pyridine bases and the acidity constant of the base arises from the constancy of the formation rate constant for these complexes (87). 

Although iron, cobalt, and nickel occur in the same triad in Group VIII., the three elements differ considerably in their ability to form addition compounds with ammonia. Iron forms few ammino-salts, most of which are unstable, and its tendency to complex-salt formation of the ammine type appears in the complex cyanides and not in the ammines themselves. 

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