Organo silver metal

The three elements lithium, sodium, and potassium bear little resemblance to copper, silver, and gold in their inorganic derivatives but, with the exception of gold, they show more resemblance in their organo-metallic compounds. 

Physical Description Metal Silver-white, heavy, odorless liquid. [Note Other Hg compounds include all inorganic aryl Hg compounds except (organo) alkyls.] ... 

So far as passivated Ag nanoparticles concerns, diere is known a convenient one-pot preparation method (14). Silver salt of carbonic acid such as myristote is heated at about 620 K without any solvent. Pyrolytically reduced Ag atoms then self-assemble to form metal clusters of about 5 nm in diameter, which are surrounded by remaining Ag myristate to form organo-passivated Ag nanoparticles with yield of 70 %. This type of self-organization may be called reaction-induced self-assembly. 

Acetylene and its derivatives of the type R-C=C-H form organo-metallic derivatives with ammoniacal cuprous chloride or with ammoniacal silver nitrate. R-C=C-Ag and R-CsC-Cu. These precipitates although explosive when dry, have been used for quantitative determinations. (Ber. 20, 3081 (1887).) An alcoholic silver nitrate solution precipitates a double salt. 

Regarding these topics, special attention was drawn to low-valent alkynyl-stabilized organo-copper(I) and -silver(I) compounds in which the respective metals possess a planar surroimding [14]. While the use of alkyne- and alkynyl-stabilized inorganic and organic group-11 metal fragments have lately been reviewed in detail [14], we focus here on recent results obtained in the field of electron transfer. 

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