Neodymium(II) iodide or neodymium diiodide is an inorganic salt of iodine and neodymium the formula NdI2. Neodymium uses the +2 oxidation state in the compound.
Neodymium(II) iodide can be made by heating molten neodymium(III) iodide with neodymium metal at 800 and 580°C for 12 hours.[4] It can also be obtained by reducing neodymium(III) iodide with neodymium in a vacuum at 800 to 900°C:[1]
Nd + 2NdI3 → 3NdI2
The reaction of neodymium with mercury(II) iodide is also possible because neodymium is more reactive than mercury:[1]
Nd + HgI2 → NdI2 + Hg
Direct preparation from iodine and neodymium is also possible:[6]
Nd + I2 → NdI2
The compound was first synthesized by John D. Corbett in 1961.[7]
Properties
Neodymium(II) iodide is a violet solid.[1] The compound is extremely hygroscopic, and can only be stored and handled under carefully dried inert gas or under a high vacuum.[8] In air it converts into hydrates by absorbing moisture, but these are unstable and more or less rapidly transform into oxide iodides with the evolution of hydrogen:
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^ abDruding, Leonard F.; Corbett, John D. (June 1961). "Lower Oxidation States of the Lanthanides. Neodymium(II) Chloride and Iodide 1". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83 (11): 2462–2467. doi:10.1021/ja01472a010.
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^Mikhail N. Bochkarev, Igor L. Fedushkin, Sebastian Dechert, Anatolii A. Fagin, Herbert Schumann: [NdI2(thf)5], der erste kristallographisch charakterisierte Neodym(II)-Komplex. In: Angewandte Chemie. 113, 2001, S. 3268–3270, doi:10.1002/1521-3757(20010903)113:17<3268::AID-ANGE3268>3.0.CO;2-K.
^G. V. Khoroshen kov, A. A. Fagin, M. N. Bochkarev, S. Dechert, H. Schumann: Reactions of neodymium(II), dysprosium(II), and thulium(II) diiodides with cyclopentadiene In: Russian Chemical Bulletin. 52, S. 1715–1719, doi:10.1023/A:1026132017155.
^ abFagin, Anatolii A.; Balashova, Tatyana V.; Kusyaev, Dmitrii M.; et al. (March 2006). "Reactions of neodymium(II) iodide with organohalides". Polyhedron. 25 (5): 1105–1110. doi:10.1016/j.poly.2005.08.050.
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