Silver nitrate halides

Adsorption of Ag on the surface of PdO is also an interesting option offered by colloidal oxide synthesis. Silver is a well-known promoter for the improvement of catalytic properties, primarily selectivity, in various reactions such as hydrogenation of polyunsaturated compounds." The more stable oxidation state of silver is -F1 Aquo soluble precursors are silver nitrate (halide precursors are aU insoluble), and some organics such as acetate or oxalate with limited solubility may also be used." Ag" " is a d ° ion and can easily form linear AgL2 type complexes according to crystal field theory. Nevertheless, even for a concentrated solution of AgNOs, Ag+ does not form aquo complexes." Although a solvation sphere surrounds the cation, no metal-water chemical bonds have been observed. 

All the silver halides are sensitive to light, decomposing eventually to silver. In sunlight, silver chloride turns first violet and finally black. The use of these compounds in photography depends on this (see below). (All silver salts are, in fact, photosensitive—the neck of a silver nitrate bottle is black owing to a deposit of silver.)... 

In the former, it gives precipitates with halides (except the fluoride), cyanides, thiocyanates, chromates(VI), phosphate(V), and most ions of organic acids. The silver salts of organic acids are obtained as white precipitates on adding silver nitrate to a neutral solution of the acid. These silver salts on ignition leave silver. When this reaction is carried out quantitatively, it provides a means of determining the basicity of the acid... 

Aliphatic mono-halides, and aromatic hydrocarbons with halogen in side-chain, precipitate silver hdide on treatment with cold aqueous silver nitrate solution. 

Principle. A known weight of the substance is heated with fuming nitric acid and silver nitrate in a sealed tube. The organic material is thus oxidised to carbon dioxide and water, whilst the halogen is converted quantitatively into the corresponding silver halide. The latter js subsequently washed out of the tube, filtered and weighed. 

Principle. This is essentially a small-scale modification of the macro piethod described on p. 416, the substance being completely oxidised in a sealed tube with fuming nitric acid in the presence of silver nitrate, the halogen being thus converted into silver halide. The collection and weighing of the silver halide require special techniques on the semi-micro scale. 

Sulphur, as sulphide ion, is detected by precipitation as black lead sulphide with lead acetate solution and acetic acid or with sodium plumbite solution (an alkaLine solution of lead acetate). Halogens are detected as the characteristic silver halides by the addition of silver nitrate solution and dilute nitric acid the interfering influence of sulphide and cyanide ions in the latter tests are discussed under the individual elements. 

Mercuric halides, silver nitrate, and copper nitrates form stable complexes with bis-2.2 -thiazolylazo compounds (1591). for which the X-ray structure is not yet known. 

Silver Chloride. Silver chloride, AgCl, is a white precipitate that forms when chloride ion is added to a silver nitrate solution. The order of solubility of the three silver halides is Cl" > Br" > I. Because of the formation of complexes, silver chloride is soluble in solutions containing excess chloride and in solutions of cyanide, thiosulfate, and ammonia. Silver chloride is insoluble in nitric and dilute sulfuric acid. Treatment with concentrated sulfuric acid gives silver sulfate. 

The Halogens Carh/s).—The method of Carius, which is usually emplo ed, consists in oxidising the substance with fuming nitric acid under piessure in presence of silver nitrate. The silver halide which is formed is then separated by filtration and w eighed. 

Theory. The anion exchange resin, originally in the chloride form, is converted into the nitrate form by washing with sodium nitrate solution. A concentrated solution of the chloride and bromide mixture is introduced at the top of the column. The halide ions exchange rapidly with the nitrate ions in the resin, forming a band at the top of the column. Chloride ion is more rapidly eluted from this band than bromide ion by sodium nitrate solution, so that a separation is possible. The progress of elution of the halides is followed by titrating fractions of the effluents with standard silver nitrate solution. 

The method may also be applied to the analysis of silver halides by dissolution in excess of cyanide solution and back-titration with standard silver nitrate. It can also be utilised indirectly for the determination of several metals, notably nickel, cobalt, and zinc, which form stable stoichiometric complexes with cyanide ion. Thus if a Ni(II) salt in ammoniacal solution is heated with excess of cyanide ion, the [Ni(CN)4]2 ion is formed quantitatively since it is more stable than the [Ag(CN)2] ion, the excess of cyanide may be determined by the Liebig-Deniges method. The metal ion determinations are, however, more conveniently made by titration with EDTA see the following sections. 

Other dyestuffs have been recommended as adsorption indicators for the titration of halides and other ions. Thus cyanide ion may be titrated with standard silver nitrate solution using diphenylcarbazide as adsorption indicator (see Section 10.44) the precipitate is pale violet at the end point. A selection of adsorption indicators, their properties and uses, is given in Table 10.8. 

Now suppose that the determination of potassium chloride and potassium bromide in a mixture is desired. The total halide is determined by Mohr s method or with an adsorption indicator. Let the weight of the mixture be w3 g and w4 g, be the weight of silver nitrate required for complete precipitation,... 

Iodides can also be determined by this method, and in this case too there is no need to filter off the silver halide, since silver iodide is very much less soluble than silver thiocyanate. In this determination the iodide solution must be very dilute in order to reduce adsorption effects. The dilute iodide solution (ca 300 mL), acidified with dilute nitric acid, is treated very slowly and with vigorous stirring or shaking with standard 0.1 M silver nitrate until the yellow precipitate coagulates and the supernatant liquid appears colourless. Silver nitrate is then present in excess. One millilitre of iron(III) indicator solution is added, and the residual silver nitrate is titrated with standard 0.1M ammonium or potassium thiocyanate. 

The indicator electrode employed in a potentiometric titration will, of course, be dependent upon the type of reaction which is under investigation. Thus, for an acid-base titration, the indicator electrode is usually a glass electrode (Section 15.6) for a precipitation titration (halide with silver nitrate, or silver with chloride) a silver electrode will be used, and for a redox titration [e.g. iron(II) with dichromate] a plain platinum wire is used as the redox electrode. 

An interesting extension of the above experiment is the titration of a mixture of halides (chloride/iodide) with silver nitrate solution. Prepare a solution (100 mL) containing both potassium chloride and potassium iodide weigh each substance accurately and arrange for the solution to be about 0.025 M with respect to each salt. A silver nitrate solution of known concentration (about 0.05 M) will also be required. 

The recovered resin can be reconverted to the hydroxide form by eluting a column of the material with aqueous 10% sodium hydroxide until it is free of halide ion (silver nitrate-nitric acid test) and then with water until the eluent is no longer alkaline to pH paper. 

Silver(I) does not disproportionate in aqueous solution and, in almost all its compounds, silver has oxidation number +1. Apart from silver nitrate, AgN03, and silver fluoride, silver salts are generally only sparingly soluble in water. Silver nitrate is the most important compound of silver and the starting point for the manufacture of silver halides for use in photography. 

The second reason for the lack of early investigations into vinyl cations was the seemingly extreme unreactivity of vinyl halides in solvolytic processes. The unreactivity of vinyl chloride, for instance, even in the presence of silver nitrate, has been almost a legend in organic chemistry (102). This lack of reactivity of simple alkylvinyl halides has been attributed to the low stability of simple vinyl cations or to the very strong carbon-halogen bond, or both. 

Once the halogen atom has left the halogenoalkane as the halide ion, X-, silver nitrate solution can be used to identify the halide as in inorganic chemistry. The three essential steps are ... 

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