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Mercury(I) iodide was a commonly used as a drug in the 19th century, sometimes under the contemporary name of protiodide of mercury.It was used to treat a wide range of conditions; everything from acne to kidney disease and in particular was the treatment of choice for syphilis.
Mercury(II) iodide is a chemical compound with the molecular formula Hg I 2. It is typically produced synthetically but can also be found in nature as the extremely rare mineral coccinite . Unlike the related mercury(II) chloride it is hardly soluble in water (<100 ppm).
2 ion, found in mercury(I) (mercurous) compounds. The existence of the metal–metal bond in Hg(I) compounds was established using X-ray studies in 1927 [2] [page needed] and Raman spectroscopy in 1934 [3] making it one of the earliest, if not the first, metal–metal covalent bonds to be characterised.
Mercury(II) chloride (or mercury bichloride [citation needed], mercury dichloride), historically also known as sulema or corrosive sublimate, [2] is the inorganic chemical compound of mercury and chlorine with the formula HgCl 2, used as a laboratory reagent.
Mercurous chloride is employed extensively in electrochemistry, taking advantage of the ease of its oxidation and reduction reactions. The calomel electrode is a reference electrode, especially in older publications. Over the past 50 years, it has been superseded by the silver/silver chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrode.
Coccinite is a rare mercury iodide mineral with chemical formula of HgI 2, mercury(II) iodide. [5] [6] It was first discovered in Casas Viejas, Mexico; [7] it has also been reported from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and from a uranium mine in Thuringia and old mercury workings in the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. [2]
"Methylmercury" is a shorthand for the hypothetical "methylmercury cation", sometimes written methylmercury(1+) cation or methylmercury(II) cation.This functional group is composed of a methyl group bonded to an atom of mercury.
The iodide is regenerated, meaning the reaction runs with the iodide/hypoiodite as a catalyst in the presence of excess of the original strong oxidizing agent. Ammonium hypoiodites are capable of oxidizing benzylic methyl groups, [2] initiating oxidative dearomatization, [3] and oxidative decarboxylation of β-ketolactones. [4]