Inorganic chemistry in aqueous solution
/ Jack Barrett
- London : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
- vii, 184 p.
includes index
1. WATER AND ITS SOLVENT PROPERTIES. Introduction -- Liquid water -- 2. LIQUID WATER AND THE HYDRATION OF IONS. The structure of liquid water -- Ions and their hydration -- Gibbs energies and enthalpies of formation of hydrated ions -- Standard molar enthalpies of hydration of ions -- The absolute value for the standard molar enthalpy of hydration of the proton -- Absolute values of the standard molar enthalpies of hydration of ions -- Standard molar entropies of hydration of ions -- 3. ACIDS AND BASES; FORMS OF IONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ION HYDROLYSIS & COMPOUND SOLUBILITY. Acids and bases in aqueous solutions -- Brønsted and Lowry acids and bases -- pH and the pH scale -- Factors influencing acidic and basic behaviour in aqueous solutions -- Forms of ions in aqueous solution; hydrolysis -- Solubilities of ionic compounds in water -- 4. THERMODYNAMICS AND ELECTRODE POTENTIALS. Changes in standard Gibbs energy and their relation to standard electrode potentials -- The hydrated electron and absolute values of reduction potentials -- 5. THE STABILITIES OF IONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION. The limits of stability of ions in aqueous systems -- Latimer and Volt-equivalent (Frost) diagrams -- 6. PERIODICITY OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY I: S- AND P-BLOCK CHEMISTRY. Periodicity of the ions formed by the s- and p-block elements -- The detailed aqueous chemistry of the s- and p-block elements -- Summary of the s- and p-block periodicity -- 7. PERIODICITY OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY II: D-BLOCK CHEMISTRY. The ions formed by the transition elements -- Enthalpies of hydration of some transition element cations -- Variations in the enthalpies of hydration of the +2 and +3 ions of the transition elements -- Variations of ionic forms and redox behaviour across the first series of transition elements -- General redox chemistry of the d-block elements -- 8. PERIODICITY OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY III: F-BLOCK CHEMISTRY. The lanthanides -- The actinides -- Answers to problems -- Subject index.