Common and maximum accessible oxidation states of the elements

Structural Chemistry

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 197-199

  Perks, H Mark ^a   Liebman, Joel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Enthalpy entropy compensation; Non metals; Non transition metals; Oxidation state; Oxides and fluorides; Transition metals; Valence electrons

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642495356     PISSN: 10400400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016656812095     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. For an overview of structure/energy/reactivity considerations in oxygen chemistry, see Ho, R. Y. N.; Liebman; J. F. Valentine, J. S. In Active Oxygen in Chemistry, Foote, C. S.; Valentine, J. S.; Greenberg, A.; Liebman, J. F., Eds.: Blackie Academic & Professional: London, 1995,
2. 2) biochemistry, see Ho, R. Y. N.; Liebman, J. F.; Valentine, J. S. In Active Oxygen in Biochemistry, Valentine, J. S.; Foote, C. S.; Greenberg, A.; Liebman, J. F., Eds., Blackie Academic & Professional: London, 1995.
3. For a general reference to the descriptive chemistry in this paper, in the absence to an explicit citation, see Cotton, F. A.; Wilkinson, G.; Murillo, C. A.; Bochmann, M., Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Wiley: New York, 1999, 6th Ed.
4. - and so the similarities appear rather superficial and superfluous.
5. Boldyrev, A. I.; Gutowski, M.; Simons, J., Acc. Chem. Res., 29, 1996, 497.
6. 2)OO [Chertihin, G. V.; Saffel, W.; Yustein, J. T.; Andrews, L.; Neurock, M.; Ricca, A.; Bauschlicher Jr., C. W. J. Phys. Chem., 100, 1996, 5261] interestingly, these isomers contain between them three of the major forms of iron-oxygen bonds suggested for hemoglobin, the cytochromes, and other biologically important iron-containing oxygen metabolic systems.
7. 4, but the necessary data are absent.
8. How exothermic and exergonic these reactions are depends on X and the state of aggregation of the iron halide. For example, if the elemental iron is found as the metallic solid, the reactions are much less energetically favorable and much more entropically favorable.