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| Title: | On mercurous nitrite and a basic mercurous nitrate derivative |
| Authors: | Samanta, Subhas
Goswami, Sreebrata
Chakravorty, Animesh |
| Keywords: | Inorganic chemistry
Nitrites
Nitrates
Mercurous nitrite
Basic mercurous nitrate
Crystal structure |
| Issue Date: | Feb-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Mercurous nitrite, first reported by P C Ray in 1896, has a centrosymmetric
structure with unsymmetrical nitrite chelation consistent with the
hybridization of the metal-metal bond. When left in air with adhering mother
liquor it is slowly transformed into a stable basic salt, Hg6(OH)2(NO3)4,
having a centrosymmetric zigzag structure in which each of the OH group
bridges two mercurous moieties and pairs of nitrate ions cap the terminal metal
atoms. In both, relatively weak intermolecular
Hg-O bonding is present in the lattice. The basic salt (n = 2) belongs to a
homologous family of general formula Hg2{(OH)Hg2}n(NO3)n+2. |
| Page(s): | 137-140 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-0975(Online); 0376-4710(Print) |
| Source: | IJC-A Vol.50A(02) [February 2011]
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