Thallium structures

Consequently, due to preferred cis-cis orientation a dimeric structure is observed for the indium complex and an unprecedented cis-trans arrangement in the thallium structure leads to a polymeric aggregate. Further N-NMR spectroscopic studies show that the aluminum and gallium complexes are stable contact ion pairs even in solution whereas the indium and thallium compounds are solvent-separated ion pairs in THE solution. 

Several derivatives of indolo[3,2-fi]carbazole, such as the system 185, have been claimed to arise from the reaction of suitably substituted simple indoles on treatment with thallium triacetate in acetic acid. A compound having the purported structure of 185 was thus isolated when 2,3-dimethylindole was used as the substrate [78UC(B)422]. Many years later, it was demonstrated that this product is in fact a derivative of indolo[2,3-c]carbazole (cf. Section VI) (99T12595). 

Thallium phthalocyanine (PcT12) can be obtained by heating phthalonitrile with an inter-metallic alloy of indium and thallium in an evacuated glass ampule.145 The structure of this compound is unique among metal phthalocyanines as the two thallium cations occupy two opposite corners of an octahedron, which is formed by the thallium cations and the four iso-indolinc nitrogen atoms facing the center of the macrocycle.147 Another unusual type of phthalocyanine can be prepared by heating phthalonitrile with thallium metal.148 It was identified as a bicyclic thallium(III) phthalocyanine (Pc3/2T1).14S... 

AuCN has a similar structure to AgCN and likewise dissolves in excess cyanide to form Au(CN)J this is important in the extraction of gold. It has been characterized as various salts (Tl, K, Bu4N, Cs) with Au-C 1.964A (Bu4N salt [91]). The thallium salt has short Au-Au (3.10A) and Au-Tl (3.50 A) interactions extended-Huckel calculations indicate the importance of relativistic effects in these covalent interactions. Isocyanides form stable complexes ... 

Alloys of lead and thallium have a structure based upon cubic closest packing from 0 to about 87-5 atomic percent thallium. The variation of the lattice constant with composition gives strong indication that ordered structures PbTl, and PbTl, exist. In the intermediate ranges, solid solutions of the types Pb(Pb,Tl)a and Pb(Pb,Tl)TlB exist. Interpretation of interatomic distances indicates that thallium atoms present in low concentration in lead assume the same valence as lead, about 2-14, and that the valence of thallium increases with increase in the mole fraction of thallium present, having the same value, about 2-50, in PbTls and PbTl, as in pure thallium. A theory of the structure of the alloys is presented which explains the observed phase diagram,... 

The diffraction patterns for the eighteen samples with between 0 and 87-8 atomic percent thallium correspond in positions and relative intensities of the lines to the A1 arrangement. The photographs for 93-4 and 96-9 atomic percent thallium show this pattern, and in addition the lines of the room-temperature modification of thallium, which has the A 3 structure. The sample of pure thallium shows only the latter pattern. 

A reasonable interpretation can be given to the curve of Fig. 2, with its two discontinuities in slope namely, that there exist ordered phases PbTls and PbTl,. Direct evidence from the intensities of X-ray reflections is not obtained for ordering in this case, because of the approximate equality in / values of lead and thallium. We can, however, discuss the probable structures of the ordered phases. The powder patterns given by these alloys show no splitting of lines. We estimate that the... 

According to our interpretation the lead-thallium alloys in the range 0-75 atomic percent thallium have the structure Pb(Pb, Tl)3, and between 75 and 87-5 atomic percent thallium they have the structure Pb(Pb, TlJTlg. The values of a0 shown in Fig. 2 indicate that at 75 atomic percent thallium there is nearly complete order, corresponding to the compound PbTl3. 

We have found it possible to formulate a simple treatment of the lead-thallium alloys that accounts satisfactorily for the existence of a maximum in melting-point displaced from the composition PbTls of the ordered structure, and that also accounts in a reasonably satisfactory way for the shapes of the liquidus and solidus curves throughout the range 0—75 atomic percent thallium (Fig. 1). The maximum in these curves occurs at a composition near that for a compound Pb2Tl3 or a compound PbTl2. If either of these compounds existed, it would have to be considered as forming solid solutions with lead and with thallium. The data, however, give no evidence for the existence of such compounds. 

A very simple treatment can be carried out by assuming that the liquid phase is a series of ideal solutions of lead and thallium, and that in the solid phase isomorphous replacement of thallium atoms in the PbTl3 structure by lead atoms occurs in the way corresponding to the formation of an ideal solution. For the liquid phase the free energy would then be represented by the expression... 

The utility of thallium(III) salts as oxidants for nonaromatic unsaturated systems is a consequence of the thermal and solvolytic instability of mono-alkylthallium(III) compounds, which in turn is apparently dependent on two major factors, namely, the nature of the associated anion and the structure of the alkyl group. Compounds in which the anion is a good bidentate ligand are moderately stable, for example, alkylthallium dicar-boxylates 74, 75) or bis dithiocarbamates (76). Alkylthallium dihalides, on the other hand, are extremely unstable and generally decompose instantly. Methylthallium diacetate, for example, can readily be prepared by the exchange reaction shown in Eq. (11) it is reasonably stable in the solid state, but decomposes slowly in solution and rapidly on being heated [Eq. (23)]. Treatment with chloride ion results in the immediate formation of methyl chloride and thallium(I) chloride [Eq. (24)] (55). These facts can be accommodated on the basis that the dicarboxylates are dimeric while the... 

The effect of structure of the alkyl group on the stability of monoalkyl-thallium(III) compounds can best be understood by reference to the different mechanisms by which these compounds undergo decomposition. A number of authors have attributed the instability of monoalkylthallium(III) compounds to facile C—T1 bond heterolysis and formation of carbonium ions [Eq. (25)] (52, 66, 79). This explanation is, however, somewhat suspect in cases where primary carbonium ions would be involved and either the two-step sequence shown in Eqs. (26), (27), or the fully synchronous 8 2 displacement shown in Eq. (28), is more compatible with the known facts. Examination of the oxythallation reactions that have been described reveals that Eq. (27) [or, for concerted reactions, Eq. (28)] can be elaborated, and that five major types of decomposition can be recognized for RTlXj compounds. These are outlined in Scheme 8, where Y, the nucleophile... 

The classical view of the lone pair is that, after mixing of the s and p orbitals on the heavy metal cation, the lone pair occupies an inert orbital in the ligand sphere [6]. This pair of electrons is considered chemically inert but stereochemi-cally active [7]. However, this implies that the lone pair would always and in any (chemical) environment be stereochemically active, which is not the case. For example, TIF [8] adopts a structure, which can be considered as a NaCl type of structure which is distorted by a stereochemically active lone pair on thallium. In contrast TlCl [9] and TlBr [10] adopt the undistorted CsCl type of structure at ambient temperature, and at lower temperatures the (again undistorted) NaCl type of structure. The structure of PbO [11] is clearly characterized by the stereochemically active lone pair. In all the other 1 1 compounds of lead with... 

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