Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry, Volume 24 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Chapter 1. Thermochemistry of Inorganic Fluorine Compounds 10
I. Introduction 10
ll. Technique and Key Values 11
Ill. Survey of Methods for Heats of Formation of Fluorides 17
IV. Methods of Estimation 31
V. Trends in Heats 45
References 56
Addendum 63
Chapter 2. Lanthanide, Yttrium, and Scandium Trihalides: Preparation of Anhydrous Materials and Solution Thermochemistry 66
I. Introduction 66
Il. Preparation of Anhydrous Rare-Earth Trihalides 67
Ill. Hydrates and Solvates 73
IV. Enthalpies of Solution 77
V. Solubilities 93
VI. Other Quantities 112
References 114
Chapter 3. The Coordination Chemistry of Sulfoxides with Transition Metals 124
I. Introduction 125
Il. Physical Studies of Sulfoxide Complexes 126
Ill. Models for Metal- Sulfoxide Bonding 145
IV. The Chemistry of Sulfoxide Complexes 149
V. Sulfoxide Complexes of the Transition Metals 165
VI. Conclusions 182
References 183
Chapter 4. Selenium and Tellurium Fluorides 198
I. Introduction 198
Il. Fluorides of Lower Oxidation States 199
Ill. Tetrafluorides 199
IV. Oxide Fluorides of Se(lV) and Te(lV) 213
V. Hexahalides 216
VI. Chemistry of the F5SeO and F5TeO Groups 220
VII. SeO2F2 227
References 227
Chapter 5. Transition-Metal Molecular Clusters 234
I. Introduction 234
Il. Structure and Bonding in Transition-Metal Clusters 235
Ill. Polynuclear Complexes of Ruthenium and Osmium 262
References 356
INDEX 366
CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS VOLUMES 376