Fundamental Coordination Ability of s-Block Metal Ions: New Aspects and Its Role in Solution Reactions

Fundamental Coordination Ability of s-Block Metal Ions: New Aspects and Its Role in Solution Reactions delves into the intricate reaction chemistry and coordination chemistry of s-block metal ions in various solutions. This book explores the crystallization and subsequent re-dissolution of s-block metal compounds from solutions, as well as their structures and the biochemistry of these ions in living organisms. By examining the complex formation of s-block metal ions with crown ethers, the book highlights the significant advancements in host-guest chemistry involving s-block metal ions. Additionally, it discusses recent synthesization of lighter metal coordination polymers, and more. The complex formation of s-block metal ions with crown ethers was discovered by C. J. Pedersen in 1967, and since then, host-guest chemistry of s-block metal ions have been highly developed. In recent years, many lighter metal coordination polymers have been synthesized actively. In this book, some “salt effects” or abnormal phenomena are accounted for in terms of coordination interaction with s-block metal ions in solution. The mechanism of enhanced oxidation ability of dilute nitric acid is discussed and the dissolution of pure gold in seawater with nitric acid is demonstrated. This important reference book will be useful to inorganic chemists, specifically those working in solution chemistry, main group metal chemistry and supramolecular chemistry, both in industry and academia.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Chemical interaction above electrostatic force between s-block metals and ligand ions 1. Host-Guest Chemistry of s-Block Metal Ions and the Development of Supramolecule Chemistry Part II: The Development of Supramolecular Chemistry Systems 2. Light Metal Coordination Polymers 3. Voltammetric Studies on Chemical Interactions of Alkali Metal Ions with Acetate and Benzoate Ions in Acetonitrile 4. Salt Effects on Proton Transfer from Nitrophenols to Amine or Pyridine Bases in Acetonitrile 5. Elucidation of Salt Effects on the Indicator Acidity in Acetonitrile 6. Direct Chelate Formation between Alkaline Earth Metal Ions and 1-(2-Pyridylazo)-2-naphthol and Related Reactions in Acetonitrile 7. Higher Ion–Aggregates in Low Permittivity Media 8. Conductivity and Spectroscopic Studies of Ion Aggregates in Higher Permittivity Media Part III: Coordination phenomena of s-block metal ions in aprotic and protic solvents 9. UV–Visible and {sup|1}H or {sup|13}C NMR Spectroscopic Studies on the Specific Interaction between Lithium and Tropolonate Ions in Acetonitrile or Other Solvents 10. Interaction between Protons or Alkaline Earth Metal Ions and the Benzoate Ion in Acetonitrile Studied by UV–visible, {sup|1}H and {sup|13}C NMR Spectroscopy 11. Precipitation and Re-Dissolution of s-Block Metal Salts Based on Coordination and “Reverse Coordination” with Aromatic Dicarboxylate, Sulfonate, or Disulfonate ions in Acetonitrile 12. Specific Coordination Phenomena of Alkaline Earth Metal Ions with Mono-, Di-, and Trisulfonates in Alcohols and Binary Solvents 13. Strong Complexing Ability of Alkali Metal and Alkaline Earth Metal Ions with Organic Phosphinate and Phosphates 14. Chemical Interaction between Alkaline Earth Metal Ions and the Benzoate or 2,6-Naphthalenedicarboxylate Ion in Acetonitrile and Alcohols 15. Coordination and “Reverse Coordination” of Alkali Metal, Alkaline Earth Metal, and Indium Ions with 1,3,6-Naphthalenetrisulfonate Ion in Protic and Aprotic Solvents Part IV: Application of the coordination ability of s-block metals and related reactions in solution 16. {sup|1}H and {sup|13}C NMR Detection of the Carbocations or Zwitterions from Fluoran Leuco Dyes or Trityl Chlorides on the Addition of s-Block Metal Ions 17. Alternative Mechanism of S{sub|N}1 Solvolysis Based on the Direct Chemical Interaction between s-Block Metal Cations and Leaving–Group Anions 18. Discovery of Enhanced Oxidation Mechanism of Dilute Nitric Acid (and Pure Gold Dissolution in Seawater) 19. Pure Gold Dissolution by the Oxidation Ability of Dilute Nitric and Nitrous Acids in the Presence of Abundant Metal Salts 20. Pure Gold and Stainless Steel Dissolution or Corrosion in Dilute Halic Acids (HXO{sub|3}, X = Cl, Br, I) Solution containing Abundant Halide Ions 21. Elucidation of Specific Ion Association in Nonaqueous Solution Environments

About the Author :
Prof. Masashi Hojo, involved in electroanalytical, inorganic, and solution chemistry for forty years, graduated from the chemistry department of Kobe University in 1974, and received his MS and PhD degrees from Kyoto University. He joined the faculty of Kochi University in 1979 and obtained his full professor position in 2001. From 1982-1984 he was a research associate at the University of Calgary, Canada; from 1987-1988 a research associate at Texas A&M University; and in 1997 a visiting researcher at Monash University, Australia. He received the Shikata International Medal from the polarographic society of Japan in 2016. He has been cited in Marquis Who’s Who in the World since 1993 and Marquis Who’s Who in America since 2009.