Other Complexes of Silver Cyanide

With the species in this section, we trespass ever more into the traditional province of inorganic compounds even though they also qualify as organometallics by our simple definition4 of this class of species. The first of such species is Ag(CN)2- which has long 

TABLE 3. Standard enthalpies of formation of silver isocyanide compounds0 (kJ mol-1) 

FIGURE 1. Enthalpies of formation of crystalline RNCAgCN compounds versus the enthalpies of formation of the respective liquid isocyanide ligands, RNC 

Likewise, reaction 10 for which regrettably the thermochemistry is limited to Gibbs energies in aqueous solution20 is exoergic21 by 30 kJmol-1. 

Finally, one can write the formal reaction22 relating this ion to AgCN 

Ag(CN)2- + Ag(OH)2-Finally, one can write the formal reaction relating this ion to AgCN 2AgCN(s) + AgCl2-( )-------------- 2AgCl(s) + Ag(CN)2 ( ) 

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