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The CuSO₄-(NH₄)₂CO₃-NH₃-NH₄SCN-H₂O system. I. The solids precipitating from the system

J. Garaj and J. Gažo

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

Abstract: From the system CuSO₄-(NH₄)₂CO₃-NH₃-NH₄SCN-H₂O, the ppt. in the solid state in relation to the compn., the mechanism of the formation and the structure of Cu(II) complexes are described. The investigation was carried out with series of isomolar solns., where the sum of the concns. of the components CuSO₄, NH₃, (NH₄)₂CO₃, and NH₄SCN was kept const. at 0.05M and where in the monovariant system Cu(NO₃)₂-NH-(NH₄)₂CO₃-NH₄SCN, only the concn. of (NH₄)₂CO₃ was variable. The conditions for the formation of complexes Cu(SCN)₂(NH₃)₂ and for insol. products 2CuSO₄.3Cu(OH)₂, CuSO₄.3Cu(OH)₂, CuCO₃.Cu(OH)₂.CuSCN, and Cu(SCN)₂(NH₃)₂ are described. The formation of α-CuSCN, the white modification, from the (NH₄)₂CO₃-free system and the formation of β-CuSCN the colored modification, from the system contg. (NH4)2CO3 is described. From the monovariant systems of the molar ratio Cu(II): CO₃^2- 1:1 and 1: 2, crystals of Cu(SCN)₂(NH₃)₄ and of the molar ratio 1:4, crystals of Cu₂(SCN)₃(NH₃)₃ and Cu₃(SCN)₄(NH₃)₄ were detd. From these results it can be derived that there is a series of unknown compds. of the general formula Cu(SCN)₂(NH₃)₂.nCu(SCN)(NH₃) with n = 0.1 and 2, which were prepd.

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Chemical Papers 19 (8) 593–603 (1965)