Transition metal chemistry Flashcards

topic 3

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Transition metals

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  • hard, high melting solids
  • conduct heat and electricity
  • readily lose electrons to form stable cations
  • variety of oxidation states available to most
  • form a wide range of coordination compounds with different ligands and molecular geometrics centre on metal ions
  • many are highly coloured and/or paramagnetic
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2
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Aufbau principle

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electrons are added to the lowest energy orbital first

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Hund’s rule

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electrons fill empty orbitals before pairing and the unpaired electrons adopt the same spin values

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Pauli exclusion principle

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no two electrons may have the same set of quantum numbers (n, l, mI, ms)

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5
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groups 3 to 7 redox

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highest oxidation state corresponds to group number

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6
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platinum metals - important in catalysis

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  • Ruthenium
  • Osmium
  • Iridium
  • Palladium
  • Platinum
  • Rhodium
    Form stable cations in water
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7
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d block ions

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lost s electrons before d electrons
Mn2+ and Fe3+ are d5 ions

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8
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lower oxidation states what compound type

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ionic

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9
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higher oxidation states what compound type

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covalent

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10
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f-block/group 3/elements of the first transition series (not Cu) react with aqueous solution of acids to give what?

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hydrogen gas and solutions of corresponding salts

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11
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Transition metals and halogens form?

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anhydrous halides

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12
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anhydrous halides reaction from halogen and metal

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2Fe + 3Cl2 –> 2FeCl3 iron (III) chloride

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anhydrous halide reaction from metal halide and additional metal

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Fe + 2FeCl3 –> 3FeCl2 iron (II) chloride
gives metal halide of lower oxidation state

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14
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Ox state of product of F + transition metal

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highest possible

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15
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synthesis of aqueous sol of halides

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react with salts of hydrohalic acids
NiCo3 + 2HF –> NiF2(aq) + H2O + CO2
nickel (II) fluoride
Co(OH)2 + 2HBr –> CoBr2(aq) + 2H2O
cobalt (II) bromide

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16
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Transition metal + acid

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dissolves to halide salt and hydrogen gas
Mn + 2HCl –> MnCl2 +H2

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17
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Electronegativity and ox states

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transition metals halides with low ox. states are more ionic

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18
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heavy d-block elements have significant covalent character

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19
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oxides and ox. state

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low ox = ionic
high ox = covalent

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20
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Oxides and ph

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low ox = basic
high ox = acids

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21
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Soluble hydroxide + aq sol of transition metal

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gelatinous precipitate
sometimes the precipitate is a hydrated oxide (composed of metal ion, oxide ions and water of hydration)

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22
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transition metal salt + soluble carbonate salt

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insoluble carbonate

23
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carbonates + acids

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metal salts, CO2 and H2O

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Carbonates decompose on heating to form

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transition metal oxides

25
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coordinate covalent bond

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donation of electrons from lewis base/ligand to lewis acid/central metal atom

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Coordination bonding

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secondary valence
secondary valence electrons don’t have to be bound to a charged species

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Coordination compounds/werner complexes

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ligands bond to a metal central atom

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lewis acid

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metal

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lewis base

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ligand

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Common neutral ligands

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water, ammonia, pyridine

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common anionic ligands

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cyanide, nitrate, carbonate, sulphate

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monodentate ligands

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connect with the central atom through one ligand

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polydentate ligand

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same ligand attaches multiple times at different points

34
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chelation

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polydentate ligands attaching to central atom

35
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some bidentate ligands

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ethylenediamine

36
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macrocylic ligands

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polydentate ligands in a ring

37
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macrocycles in biological processes

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used to immobilise metal ions and to increase their reactivity

38
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naming coordination complexes

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if ionic, name cation then anion
ligand first then central
ligands alphabetically
multiples of a ligand -> di/tri/tetra
if cation/neutral metal name is same with ox state at the end
if anion then add ate

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lanthanides

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silvery metals abundant
+3 oxidation states mainly

40
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actinides

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radioactive
+3 oxidation states mainly

41
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only actinides in nature

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thorium and uranium

42
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condensed electron config of lanthanides

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[noble gas] ns2 (n - 2)4fx (n - 1)d0

exceptions:
Ce, Gd and Lu have 5d1

43
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crystal field theory

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  • Occurs for the d-orbitals of transition metals
  • The metal ion and the ligand electron pairs are treated as point charges
  • The interaction between them is purely electrostatic (ionic)
  • If the ligand is charged: ion-ion interaction; if ligand is neutral: ion-dipole interaction
44
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Porphyrins in biology

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tetradentate macrocycle
metalloporphyrin e.g. haeme b
vital to life

45
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colours of d0 and d10 transition metals

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white solids
i.e. titanium (IV) oxide and copper (I) iodide

46
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how does colour arise in partially filled transition metals

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transition of element from t2g to 3g by UV light

47
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relationship between value of delta-o and wavelength max

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direct relationship for d1 metals
in Ti (III), delta-o = wavelength max

48
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determining colour transmitted

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opposite on colour wheel to whats absorbed

49
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Ti (III) colour transmitted

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violet

50
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colour wheel nm

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400, 430, 480, 560, 590, 630, 700

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spectrochemical series

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list of ligands based on the strength of their interactions with metal ions

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strong field

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high delta-o
low spin
shorter wavelength absorbed
CN

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weak field

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low delta-o
high spin
longer wavelength absorbed
H2O
F