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Sodium ferrocyanide is produced industrially from hydrogen cyanide, ferrous chloride, and calcium hydroxide, the combination of which affords Ca 2 [Fe(CN) 6]·11H 2 O.A solution of this salt is then treated with sodium salts to precipitate the mixed calcium-sodium salt CaNa 2 [Fe(CN) 6] 2, which in turn is treated with sodium carbonate to give the tetrasodium salt.
Ferrocyanide is the name of the anion [Fe 6] 4−. Salts of this coordination complex give yellow solutions. It is usually available as the salt potassium ferrocyanide, which has the formula K 4 Fe(CN) 6. [Fe(CN) 6] 4− is a diamagnetic species, featuring low-spin iron(II) center in an octahedral ligand environment.
Because of the high stability of their complexation with iron, ferrocyanides (Sodium ferrocyanide E535, Potassium ferrocyanide E536, and Calcium ferrocyanide E538 [45]) do not decompose to lethal levels in the human body and are used in the food industry as, e.g., an anticaking agent in table salt. [46]
Potassium hexacyanidoferrate(II) finds many niche applications in industry. It and the related sodium salt are widely used as anticaking agents for both road salt and table salt. The potassium and sodium hexacyanidoferrates(II) are also used in the purification of tin and the separation of copper from molybdenum ores.
Potassium ferricyanide when milled has lighter color. Potassium ferricyanide is the chemical compound with the formula K 3 [Fe(CN) 6].This bright red salt contains the octahedrally coordinated [Fe(CN) 6] 3− ion. [2]
The iron is low spin and easily reduced to the related ferrocyanide ion [Fe(CN) 6] 4−, which is a ferrous (Fe 2+) derivative. This redox couple is reversible and entails no making or breaking of Fe–C bonds: [Fe(CN) 6] 3− + e − ⇌ [Fe(CN) 6] 4−. This redox couple is a standard in electrochemistry.
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[2] [8] [7] In addition, it can be produced by treating mercuric sulfate with potassium ferrocyanide in water: [8] K 4 Fe(CN) 6 + 3 HgSO 4 → 3 Hg(CN) 2 + 2 K 2 SO 4 + FeSO 4. Another method to generate mercuric cyanide is through the disproportionation of mercury(I) derivatives. In these reactions, metallic mercury precipitates, and Hg(CN) 2 ...