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Thiocyanate [6] is known to be an important part in the biosynthesis of hypothiocyanite by a lactoperoxidase. [7] [8] [9] Thus the complete absence of thiocyanate or reduced thiocyanate [10] in the human body, (e.g., cystic fibrosis) is damaging to the human host defense system.
Thiocyanate complexes are not widely used commercially. Possibly the oldest application of thiocyanate complexes was the use of thiocyanate as a test for ferric ions in aqueous solution. [14] The reverse was also used: testing for the presence of thiocyanate by the addition of ferric salts. The 1:1 complex of thiocyanate and iron is deeply red.
For example, it will react with diluted sulfuric acid under heating forming potassium sulfate, ferric sulfate and hydrogen cyanide. 2 K 3 [Fe(CN) 6] + 6 H 2 SO 4 → 3 K 2 SO 4 + Fe 2 (SO 4) 3 + 12 HCN. This won't occour with concentrated sulfuric acid as hydrolysis to formic acid and dehydration to carbon monoxide will take place instead. [17]
A molecular ferric complex is the anion ferrioxalate, [Fe(C 2 O 4) 3] 3−, with three bidentate oxalate ions surrounding the Fe core. Relative to lower oxidation states, ferric is less common in organoiron chemistry, but the ferrocenium cation [Fe(C 2 H 5) 2] + is well known.
It can be painted onto a surface or kept as a colorless solution. When in contact with ferric chloride solution (or other solutions containing Fe 3+), the product of the reaction is a solution with a blood red colour, due to the formation of the thiocyanatoiron complex ion. Thus this chemical is often used to create the effect of 'stigmata'.
An example of a low-spin iron(III) complex is [Fe(CN) 6] 3−. The cyanide ligands may easily be detached in [Fe(CN) 6 ] 3− , and hence this complex is poisonous, unlike the iron(II) complex [Fe(CN) 6 ] 4− found in Prussian blue, [ 16 ] which does not release hydrogen cyanide except when dilute acids are added. [ 17 ]
In coordination chemistry, a stability constant (also called formation constant or binding constant) is an equilibrium constant for the formation of a complex in solution. It is a measure of the strength of the interaction between the reagents that come together to form the complex. There are two main kinds of complex: compounds formed by the ...
Ammonium thiocyanate is used in the manufacture of herbicides, thiourea, and transparent artificial resins; in matches; as a stabilizing agent in photography; in various rustproofing compositions; as an adjuvant in textile dyeing and printing; as a tracer in oil fields; in the separation of hafnium from zirconium (important for the production of hafnium-free zircalloy for use in nuclear fuel ...