Chemistry of Fluorine (eBook)

Front Cover 1
The Chemistry of Fluorine 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Introduction 6
25. FLUORINE 10
Chapter 1. General Properties of Fluorine and Fluorides 11
Discovery of the Element 11
Occurrence and Industrial Applications 11
Production of Elemental Fluorine 13
Manipulation of Fluorine and Fluorides in the Laboratory 16
Fluorine Isotopes 20
Physical Properties of Fluorine 21
Chemical Reactivity of Fluorine 24
Biological Activity of Fluorides 29
Analytical Chemistry of Fluorine and Fluorides 33
Chapter 2. The Hydrogen Fluoride Solvent System 39
Physical Properties of Hydrogen Fluoride 40
Self-Ionization in Hydrogen Fluoride 43
Acidity of Hydrogen Fluoride 44
Solution Processes in Hydrogen Fluoride 46
Chapter 3. Ionization in Halogen Fluorides 55
Self-Ionization and Solution Processes 55
Preparative Reactions in Halogen Fluorides 59
Fluoroanions of Halogens 61
Fluorocations of Halogens 62
Chapter 4. Fluorides of Main Group Elements 63
Physical Properties and Structures of Fluorides 63
Ionic Fluorides of Groups I and II 66
The "Inert Pair Effect" and the Fluorides of Groups III-V 66
Catenation in Group VI Fluorides 68
Higher Oxidation States in Group VI and VII Fluorides 69
Specificity of Fluorination in Rare Gas Reactivity 70
Fluoro-Complexes and Mixed Halides 71
Fluorine Bridging 72
Chapter 5. Chemical Reactivity of Higher Fluorides of d- and f-Transition Elements 74
General Methods of Preparation of Transition Metal Fluorides 76
Thermodynamic Stability of d-Transition Metal Fluorides 78
Chemical Reactivity of Higher Fluorides of d-Transition Metals 81
Thermodynamic Stability of f-Transition Metal Fluorides 91
Chemical Reactivity of Higher Fluorides of f-Transition Elements 96
Bonding and Structure in Higher Transition Metal Fluorides 100
Index 108
Contents of Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry 110
Independent Opinion 112