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Inorganic Chemistry B. Chapter 23. d -Block metal chemistry: the second and third row metals. 23.1 Introduction. The abundances of some of the heavier metals are very low, e.g. Os, 1 10 4 ppm and Ir, 6 10 6 ppm; Tc does not occur naturally.
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Inorganic Chemistry B Chapter 23 d-Block metal chemistry: the second and third row metals Dr. Said El-Kurdi
23.1 Introduction Dr. Said El-Kurdi
The abundances of some of the heavier metals are very low, e.g. Os, 1104 ppm and Ir, 6106 ppm; Tc does not occur naturally Yttrium and lanthanum are similar to the lanthanoids and occur with them in nature. Zirconium is the next most abundant d-block metal in the Earth’s crust after Fe, Ti and Mn Zirconium and hafnium occur naturally together and are hard to separate. Hf is rarer than Zr, 5.3 and 190 ppm, respectively, of the Earth’s crust. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
Very pure metals can be obtained by zone refining Beginning with a polycrystalline rod, a small zone (which lies perpendicular to the direction of the rod) is melted. The focus-point of the zone is gradually moved along the length of the rod; under carefully controlled conditions, cooling, which takes place behind the melt-zone, produces single crystals while impurities migrate along the rod with the molten material. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
Niobium (formerly known as columbium) and tantalum occur together in the mineral columbite (Fe,Mn)(Nb,Ta)2O6 molybdenum and tungsten compounds are usually isomorphous, the elements occur separately. Technetium is an artificial element, available as 99Tc (a -particle emitter Rhenium is rare and occurs in small amounts in Mo ores. The platinum-group metals (ruthenium Ru, Osmium Os, Rhodium Rh, iridium Ir, Pd and Pt) are rare and expensive, and occur together either native or in sulfide ores of Cu and Ni. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
Silver and gold occur native, and in sulfide, arsenide and telluride ores, e.g. argentite (Ag2S) Cadmium occurs as the rare mineral greenockite (CdS), but the metal is isolated almost entirely from zinc ores, CdS occurring (<0.5%) in ZnS. Cadmium has a relatively low melting point (594 K) and is used as an alloying agent in low-melting alloys. The main use of cadmium is in NiCd batteries Dr. Said El-Kurdi
The symbol Hg is derived from hydrargyrum (Latin) meaning ‘liquid silver’. The major source of mercury is cinnabar (HgS), from which the metal is extracted by roasting in air 23.3 Physical properties The electronic configurations of the ground state M(g) atoms change rather irregularly with increasing atomic number more so than for the first row metals the nd and (n+1)s atomic orbitals are closer in energy for n = 4 or 5 than for n = 3 Dr. Said El-Kurdi
with the exception of Hg (group 12), the heavier metals have higher values of aHo than their first row congeners. This is a consequence of the greater spatial extent of d orbitals with an increase in principal quantum number, and greater orbital overlap. 5d–5d > 4d–4d > 3d–3d. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
The heavier metals exhibit many more compounds containing M M bonds. In general, the stability of high oxidation states increases for a given triad in the sequence first row second row < third row metals. • easier promotion of electrons for the 5d metals compared with 4d or 3d metals; • better orbital overlap for 5d orbitals (or those with 5d character) than for 4d or 3d orbitals. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
Relativistic effects If Einstein’s theory of relativity is combined with quantum mechanics, in which case they are attributed to relativistic effects. According to the theory of relativity, the mass m of a particle increases from its rest mass m0 when its velocity vapproaches the speed of light, c, and m is then given by the equation: Dr. Said El-Kurdi
For a one-electron system, the Bohr model of the atom leads to the velocity of the electron being expressed by the equation: where Z = atomic number, e = charge on the electron, 0 = permittivity of a vacuum, h = Planck constant For n = 1 and Z = 1, v/c is only (1/137) but for Z = 80, v/c = 0.58 leading to m = 1.2m0. Since the radius of the Bohr orbit is given by the equation Dr. Said El-Kurdi
the increase in m results in an approximately 20% contraction of the radius of the 1s (n = 1) orbital; this is called relativistic contraction. Other s orbitals are affected in a similar way and as a consequence, when Z is high, s orbitals have diminished overlap with orbitals of other atoms. p orbitals (which have a low electron density near to the nucleus) are less affected. d orbitals (which are more effectively screened from the nuclear charge by the contracted s and p orbitals) undergo a relativistic expansion; a similar argument applies to f orbitals. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
The relativistic contraction of the s orbitals means that for an atom of high atomic number, there is an extra energy of attraction between s electrons and the nucleus. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
Effects of the lanthanoid contraction pairs of metals in a triad (Zr and Hf, Nb and Ta etc.) are of similar radii. This is due to the lanthanoid contraction: the steady decrease in size along the series of lanthanoid metals Ce–Lu which lie between La and Hf in the third row of the d-block. This observation is due to the presence of a filled 4f level the shielding of one 4f electron by another is less than for one d electron by another, and as the nuclear charge increases from La to Lu, there is a fairly regular decrease in the size of the 4f n sub-shell. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
Coordination numbers Consistent with the increase in size in going from a first row to later metals in a triad, the heavier metals tend to show higher coordination numbers. 23.4 Group 3: yttrium In the coordination chemistry of Y3+, coordination numbers of 6 to 9 are usual. The Y3+ ion is ‘hard’ and in its complexes favors hard N- and O- donors Dr. Said El-Kurdi
23.5 Group 4: zirconium and hafnium The Lewis acidity of the halides is seen in the formation of complexes such as HfCl42L (L = NMe3, THF) 23.6 Group 5: niobium and tantalum The properties of Nb and Ta (and of pairs of corresponding compounds) are similar. At high temperatures, both are attacked by O2 (equation 23.20) and the halogens (equation 23.21) and combine with most non-metals. Dr. Said El-Kurdi
The halides NbF5, TaF5, NbCl5 and TaCl5 are useful starting materials in the chemistry of these metals. 23.7 Group 6: molybdenum and tungsten Octahedral geometries are common for complexes of Mo(IV) and W(IV), The salt K4[Mo(CN)8]2H2O was the first example (in 1939) of an 8-coordinate (dodecahedral) complex. However, studies on a range of salts of [Mo(CN)8]4 and [W(CN)8]4 reveal cation dependence, both dodecahedral and square antiprismatic anions being found Dr. Said El-Kurdi
23.8 Group 7: technetium and rhenium Dr. Said El-Kurdi
23.9 Group 8: ruthenium and osmium Like all platinum-group metals, Ru and Os are relatively noble. Osmium powder reacts slowly with O2 at 298K to give the volatile OsO4 Dr. Said El-Kurdi