Platinum-sodium nitrate

Adams catalyst, platinum oxide, Pt02 H20. Produced by fusion of H2PtCl6 with sodium nitrate at 500-550 C and leaching of the cooled melt with water. Stable in air, activated by hydrogen. Used as a hydrogenation catalyst for converting alkenes to alkanes at low pressure and temperature. Often used on Si02... 

Method 1. From ammonium chloroplatinate. Place 3 0 g. of ammonium chloroplatinate and 30 g. of A.R. sodium nitrate (1) in Pyrex beaker or porcelain casserole and heat gently at first until the rapid evolution of gas slackens, and then more strongly until a temperature of about 300° is reached. This operation occupies about 15 minutes, and there is no spattering. Maintain the fluid mass at 500-530° for 30 minutes, and allow the mixture to cool. Treat the sohd mass with 50 ml. of water. The brown precipitate of platinum oxide (PtOj.HjO) settles to the bottom. Wash it once or twice by decantation, filter througha hardened filter paper on a Gooch crucible, and wash on the filter until practically free from nitrates. Stop the washing process immediately the precipitate tends to become colloidal (2) traces of sodium nitrate do not affect the efficiency of the catalyst. Dry the oxide in a desiccator, and weigh out portions of the dried material as required. 

Ammonium chloroplatinate often can be used to advantage in place of chloroplatim c acid in the preparation of Adams catalyst. A mixture of 3 g. of ammonium chloroplatinate and 30 g. of sodium nitrate in a casserole or Pyrex beaker is heated gently at first until the rapid evolution of gas slackens and then more strongly until a temperature of 500° is reached. This operation requires about fifteen minutes and there is no spattering. The temperature is held at 500-520° for one-half hour and the mixture is then allowed to cool. The platinum oxide catalyst, collected in the usual way by extracting the soluble salts with water, weighs 1.5 g. and it is comparable in appearance and in activity to the material prepared from chloroplatinic acid. 

This procedure is particularly time-saving when scrap platinum or spent catalyst is used for the preparation of platinum oxide, for after conversion to chloroplatinic acid a purification is conveniently effected by precipitating the ammonium salt, and the direct fusion of this with sodium nitrate eliminates the tedious process of reconversion to chloroplatinic acid. Furthermore ammonium chloroplatinate is not hygroscopic and can he accurately weighed. The amount of catalyst obtained is almost exactly half the weight of the ammonium salt employed. 

It is available commercially from several routes including as a product from the manufacture of sodium nitrate from sodium chloride and nitric acid, and from a process involving the passage of ammonia and air over heated platinum and treating the nitric oxide so formed with oxygen. 

Gold is stable in most strong reducing acids, whereas iron corrodes rapidly, yet finely divided gold can be quickly dissolved in oxygenated cyanide solutions which may be contained in steel tanks. A mixture of caustic soda and sodium nitrate can be fused in an iron or nickel crucible, whereas this melt would have a disastrous effect on a platinum crucible. 

The experiment may also be repeated using a platinum (indicator) electrode and a tungsten wire reference electrode. If the tungsten electrode has been left idle for more than a few days, the surface must be cleaned by dipping into just molten sodium nitrate (CARE ). The salt should be only just at the melting point or the tungsten will be rapidly attacked it should remain in the melt for a few seconds only and is then thoroughly washed with distilled water. 

Palladium(II) oxide, 4825 Palladium(IV) oxide, 4835 Perchloric acid, 3998 Periodic acid, 4425 Permanganic acid, 4434 Peroxodisulfuric acid, 4482 Peroxodisulfuryl difluoride, 4328 Peroxomonosulfuric acid, 4481 Peroxytrifluoroacetic acid, 0666 Platinum hexafluoride, 4371 Platinum(IV) oxide, 4836 Plutonium hexafluoride, 4372 Potassium bromate, 0255 Potassium chlorate, 4017 Potassium dichromate, 4248 Potassium iodate, 4619 Potassium nitrate, 4650 Potassium nitrite, 4649 Potassium perchlorate, 4018 Potassium periodate, 4620 Potassium permanganate, 4647 Rhenium hexafluoride, 4373 Rubidium fluoroxysulfate, 4309 Ruthenium(VIII) oxide, 4862 Selenium dioxide, 4838 Selenium dioxide, 4838 Silver permanganate, 0021 Sodium chlorate, 4039 Sodium chlorite, 4038 Sodium dichromate, 4250 Sodium iodate, 4624 Sodium nitrate, 4721 Sodium nitrite, 4720... 

With the addition of Sn as a second metal the composition was closer to that predicted for pure Cg cyclization. Rhenium had the opposite effect (107). Suppression of the acidity of the alumina support (of platinum or palladium) by incorporation of sodium nitrate (126) decreases first the C5 - Cg ring enlargement activity of the catalyst (124, 127). Potassium ions (94-94b) or iec-butylamine (70) have a similar effect. 

Palladium. Palladium catalysts are much like platinum, but a little more versatile. Palladium oxide is made by heating palladium chloride with sodium nitrate to fusion at 575-600°. Use palladium oxide (an equimolar amount) in the formulas already given for reducing with platinum oxide. Below is a reduction with palladium-carbon. 

Palladium catalysts resemble closely the platinum catalysts. Palladium oxide (PdO) is prepared from palladium chloride and sodium nitrate by fusion at 575-600° [29,30]. Elemental palladium is obtained by reduction of palladium chloride with sodium borohydride [27, 31], Supported palladium catalysts are prepared with the contents of 5% or 10% of palladium on charcoal, calcium carbonate and barium sulfate [32], Sometimes a special support can increase the selectivity of palladium. Palladium on strontium carbonate (2%) was successfully used for reduction of just y, (5-double bond in a system of oc, / , y, (5-unsaturated ketone [ii]. 

H. Gorke measured soln. between 2 and 60 per cent, cone., and between 0° and 100°. F. Kohlrausch and O. Grotrian give for the temp, coeff. of a 49 3 per cent, soln., a specific conductivity of K0(l +0 02350 +OOOOO1902), where K0 represents the specific conductivity at 0°. R. Dennhardt measured the relation between the viscosity and electrical conductivity. M. le Blanc found the decompositiou potential of a Y-soln., with platinum electrodes, at room temp., to be 2 08 volts, being thus about 0 08 volt less than the value for potassium and sodium nitrates. 

According to a French patent,2 an anode of platinum is used with a tin cathode. Sodium nitrate solution is dropped into the cathode compartment, and the anolyte is sodium chloride solution. The yield of hydroxylamine is said to be 60-80 per cent, and chlorine is a by-product. 

The reduction of nitrate to nitrite can be accomplished satisfactorily, and the process is the subject of a recent patent.1 It has been shown (Mtlller and Weber)2 that in a divided cell, smooth platinum or copper cathodes reduce nitrate to nitrite and ammonia, but platinised platinum gives much ammonia and little nitrite. A spongy copper or silver cathode was found to give the best results. With a current density of 0 25 amps, per dm.2 and a concentration of 2 3 grams of sodium nitrate per litre, a current efficiency of 90 per cent, was obtained. The current efficiency with an amalgamated copper cathode was found to diminish when 50 per cent, of the nitrate had been changed. Considerable care is evidently needed to prevent the formation of ammonia, since it has been shown by W. H. Easton 3... 

Voorhees and Adams141 obtained an active platinum black from the platinum oxide prepared by fusing a mixture of chloroplatinic acid and sodium nitrate at 500-550°C. The platinum oxide is readily reduced to an active black with hydrogen in a solvent in the presence or absence of substrate. The platinum oxide-platinum black thus prepared has been shown to be very active in the hydrogenation of various organic compounds and is now widely used as Adams platinum oxide catalyst. Frampton et al. obtained a platinum oxide catalyst of reproducible activity by adding a dry powder of a mixture of 1 g of chloroplatinic acid and 9 g of sodium nitrate in its entirety to 100... 

Adams Platinum Oxide (by Adams et a/.).148 In a porcelain casserole is prepared a solution of 3.5 g of chloroplatinic acid in 10 ml of water, and to this is added 35 g of sodium nitrate.The mixture is evaporated to dryness while stirring with a glass rod. The temperature is then raised to 350-370°C within 10 min. Fusion takes place, brown oxides of nitrogen are evolved, and a precipitate of brown platinum oxide gradually separates. After 15 min, when the temperature has reached about 400°C, the evolution of gas has gently decreased. After 20 min the temperature should be 500-550°C. The temperature is held until about 30 min have elapsed, when the fusion should be complete. The mass is allowed to cool and is then treated with 50 ml of water.The brown precipitate settles to the bottom and can be washed by decantation once or twice, then filtered, and washed until practically free from nitrates. If the precipitate becomes colloidal, it is better to stop washing immediately at that stage. The oxide is either used directly or dried in a desiccator. The yield is 1.57-1.65 g (95-100% of the theoretical amount). 

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