Plumbane

Plumbane
Skeletal formula of plumbane
Spacefill model of plumbane
  Lead, Pb
  Hydrogen, H
Names
IUPAC name
Plumbane
Other names
lead tetrahydride, tetrahydridolead, lead(IV) hydride, hydrogen plumbide
Identifiers
CAS Number
  • 15875-18-0 ☒N
3D model (JSmol)
  • Interactive image
ChEBI
  • CHEBI:30181 checkY
ChemSpider
  • 109888 checkY
PubChem CID
  • 123278
InChI
  • InChI=1S/Pb.4H checkY
    Key: XRCKXJLUPOKIPF-UHFFFAOYSA-N checkY
  • InChI=1/Pb.4H/rH4Pb/h1H4
    Key: XRCKXJLUPOKIPF-BJORFFIVAF
  • [Pb]
Properties
Chemical formula
PbH4
Molar mass 211.23 g/mol
Appearance Colorless gas
Boiling point −13 °C (9 °F; 260 K)
Structure
Molecular shape
Tetrahedral at the Pb atom
Related compounds
Related tetrahydride compounds
  • Methane
  • Silane
  • Germane
  • Stannane
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references
Chemical compound

Plumbane is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula PbH4. It is a colorless gas. It is a metal hydride and group 14 hydride composed of lead and hydrogen.[1] Plumbane is not well characterized or well known, and it is thermodynamically unstable with respect to the loss of a hydrogen atom.[2] Derivatives of plumbane include lead tetrafluoride, PbF4, and tetraethyllead, (CH3CH2)4Pb.

History

Until recently, it was uncertain whether plumbane had ever actually been synthesized,[3] although the first reports date back to the 1920s[4] and in 1963, Saalfeld and Svec reported the observation of PbH+
4
by mass spectrometry.[5] Plumbane has repeatedly been the subject of DiracHartree–Fock relativistic calculation studies, which investigate the stabilities, geometries, and relative energies of hydrides of the formula MH4 or MH2.[2][6][7]

Properties

Plumbane is an unstable colorless gas and is the heaviest group IV hydride;[8] and has a tetrahedral (Td) structure with an equilibrium distance between lead and hydrogen of 1.73 Å.[9] By weight, plumbane is 1.91% hydrogen and 98.09% lead. In plumbane, the formal oxidation states of hydrogen and lead are +1 and -4, respectively, because the electronegativity of lead(IV) is higher than that of hydrogen. The stability of hydrides MH4 (M = C–Pb) decreases as the atomic number of M increases.

Preparation

Early studies of PbH4 revealed that the molecule is unstable as compared to its lighter congeners silane, germane, and stannane.[10] It cannot be made by methods used to synthesize GeH4 or SnH4.

In 1999, plumbane was synthesized from lead(II) nitrate, Pb(NO3)2, and sodium borohydride, NaBH4.[11] A non-nascent mechanism for plumbane synthesis was reported in 2005.[12]

In 2003, Wang and Andrews carefully studied the preparation of PbH4 by laser ablation and additionally identified the infrared (IR) bands.[13]

Congeners

Congeners of plumbane include:

References

  1. ^ Porritt, C. J. (1975). Chem. Ind-London. 9: 398. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ a b Hein, Thomas A.; Thiel, Walter; Lee, Timothy J. (1993). "Ab initio study of the stability and vibrational spectra of plumbane, methylplumbane, and homologous compounds". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 97 (17): 4381–4385. doi:10.1021/j100119a021. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0028-1862-2.
  3. ^ Cotton, F. A.; Wilkinson, G.; Murillo, C. A.; Bochman, M. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. Wiley: New York, 1999
  4. ^ Paneth, Fritz; Nörring, Otto (1920). "Über Bleiwasserstoff". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series). 53 (9): 1693–1710. doi:10.1002/cber.19200530915.
  5. ^ Saalfeld, Fred E.; Svec, Harry J. (1963). "The Mass Spectra of Volatile Hydrides. I. The Monoelemental Hydrides of the Group IVB and VB Elements". Inorganic Chemistry. 2: 46–50. doi:10.1021/ic50005a014.
  6. ^ Desclaux, J. P.; Pyykko, P. (1974). "Relativistic and non-relativistic Hartree-Fock one-centre expansion calculations for the series CH4 to PbH4 within the spherical approximation". Chemical Physics Letters. 29 (4): 534–539. Bibcode:1974CPL....29..534D. doi:10.1016/0009-2614(74)85085-2.
  7. ^ Pyykkö, P.; Desclaux, J. P. (1977). "Dirac–Fock one-centre calculations show (114)H4 to resemble PbH4". Nature. 266 (5600): 336–337. Bibcode:1977Natur.266..336P. doi:10.1038/266336a0. S2CID 4183019.
  8. ^ CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online Edition.
  9. ^ Visser, O.; Visscher, L.; Aerts, P. J. C.; Nieuwpoort, W. C. (1992). "Relativistic all-electron molecular Hartree-Fock-Dirac-(Breit) calculations on CH4, SiH4, GeH4, SnH4, PbH4". Theoretica Chimica Acta. 81 (6): 405–416. doi:10.1007/BF01134864. S2CID 97874625.
  10. ^ Malli, Gulzari L.; Siegert, Martin; Turner, David P. (2004). "Relativistic and electron correlation effects for molecules of heavy elements: Ab initio fully relativistic coupled-cluster calculations for PbH4". International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 99 (6): 940–949. doi:10.1002/qua.20142.
  11. ^ Krivtsun, V. M.; Kuritsyn, Y. A.; Snegirev, E. P. (1999). "Observation of IR absorption spectra of the unstable PbH4 molecule" (PDF). Opt. Spectrosc. 86 (5): 686–691. Bibcode:1999OptSp..86..686K. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  12. ^ Zou, Y; Jin, FX; Chen, ZJ; Qiu, DR; Yang, PY (2005). "Non-nascent hydrogen mechanism of plumbane generation". Guang Pu Xue Yu Guang Pu Fen Xi = Guang Pu. 25 (10): 1720–3. PMID 16395924.
  13. ^ Wang, Xuefeng; Andrews, Lester (2003). "Infrared Spectra of Group 14 Hydrides in Solid Hydrogen: Experimental Observation of PbH4, Pb2H2, and Pb2H4". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125 (21): 6581–6587. doi:10.1021/ja029862l. PMID 12785799.
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  • Pb(C2H3O2)2
  • PbC2O4
  • PbCl2
  • Pb(ClO4)2
  • PbCO3
  • PbCrO4
  • PbF2
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  • Pb(C
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    H
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    COO)
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  • plumbite
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Pb(II,IV)
  • Pb3O4
Pb(IV)
  • Pb(C2H3O2)4
  • PbCl4
  • PbF4
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  • plumbate
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Alkali metal
(Group 1) hydrides
Alkaline
(Group 2)
earth hydrides
Monohydrides
Dihydrides
  • BeH2
  • MgH2
  • CaH2
  • SrH2
  • BaH2
Group 13
hydrides
Boranes
  • BH3
  • BH
  • B2H6
  • B2H2
  • B2H4
  • B4H10
  • B5H9
  • B5H11
  • B6H10
  • B6H12
  • B10H14
  • B18H22
Alanes
  • AlH3
  • Al2H6
Gallanes
  • GaH3
  • Ga2H6
Indiganes
  • InH3
  • In2H6
Thallanes
  • TlH3
  • Tl2H6
Nihonanes (predicted)
  • NhH
  • NhH3
  • Nh2H6
  • NhH5
Group 14 hydrides
Hydrocarbons
  • CH
  • CH2
  • CH3
  • C2H
Silanes
  • SiH4
  • Si2H6
  • Si3H8
  • Si4H10
  • Si5H12
  • Si6H14
  • Si7H16
  • Si8H18
  • Si9H20
  • Si10H22
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Silenes
  • Si2H4
Silynes
Germanes
  • GeH4
  • Ge2H6
  • Ge3H8
  • Ge4H10
  • Ge5H12
Stannanes
  • SnH4
  • Sn2H6
Plumbanes
  • PbH4
Flerovanes (predicted)
  • FlH
  • FlH2
  • FlH4
Pnictogen
(Group 15) hydrides
Azanes
  • NH3
  • N2H4
  • N3H5
  • N4H6
  • N5H7
  • N6H8
  • N7H9
  • N8H10
  • N9H11
  • N10H12
  • more...
Azenes
  • N2H2
  • N3H3
  • N4H4
Phosphanes
  • PH3
  • P2H4
  • P3H5
  • P4H6
  • P5H7
  • P6H8
  • P7H9
  • P8H10
  • P9H11
  • P10H12
  • more...
Phosphenes
  • P2H2
  • P3H3
  • P4H4
Arsanes
  • AsH3
  • As2H4
Stibanes
  • SbH3
Bismuthanes
  • BiH3
Moscovanes
  • McH3 (predicted)
  • HN3
  • NH
  • HN5
  • NH5 (?)
Hydrogen
chalcogenides
(Group 16 hydrides)
Polyoxidanes
  • H2O
  • H2O2
  • H2O3
  • H2O4
  • H2O5
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  • Polysulfanes
    • H2S
    • H2S2
    • H2S3
    • H2S4
    • H2S5
    • H2S6
    • H2S7
    • H2S8
    • H2S9
    • H2S10
    • more...
    Selanes
    • H2Se
    • H2Se2
    Tellanes
    • H2Te
    • H2Te2
    Polanes
    • PoH2
    Livermoranes
    • LvH2 (predicted)
    • HO
    • HO2
    • HO3
    • H2O+–O (?)
    • HS
    • HDO
    • D2O
    • T2O
    Hydrogen halides
    (Group 17 hydrides)
  • HF
  • HCl
  • HBr
  • HI
  • HAt
  • HTs (predicted)
  • Transition metal hydrides
    • ScH2
    • YH2
    • YH3
    • YH6
    • YH9
    • LuH2
    • LuH3
    • TiH2
    • TiH4
    • ZrH2
    • ZrH4
    • HfH2
    • HfH4
    • VH
    • VH2
    • NbH
    • NbH2
    • TaH
    • TaH2
    • CrH
    • CrH2
    • CrHx
    • FeH
    • FeH2
    • FeH5
    • CoH2
    • RhH2
    • IrH3
    • NiH
    • PdHx (x < 1)
    • PtHx (x< 1)
    • DsH2 (predicted)
    • CuH
    • RgH (predicted)
    • ZnH2
    • CdH2
    • HgH
    • Hg2H2
    • HgH2
    • CnH2 (predicted)
    Lanthanide hydrides
    • LaH2
    • LaH3
    • LaH10
    • CeH2
    • CeH3
    • PrH2
    • PrH3
    • NdH2
    • NdH3
    • SmH2
    • SmH3
    • EuH2
    • GdH2
    • GdH3
    • TbH2
    • TbH3
    • DyH2
    • DyH3
    • HoH2
    • HoH3
    • ErH2
    • ErH3
    • TmH2
    • TmH3
    • YbH2
    • LuH2
    • LuH3
    Actinide hydrides
    • AcH2
    • ThH2
    • ThH4
    • Th4H15
    • PaH3
    • UH3
    • UH4
    • NpH2
    • NpH3
    • PuH2
    • PuH3
    • AmH2
    • AmH3
    • CmH2
    • BkH2
    • BkH3
    • CfH2
    • CfH3
    Exotic matter hydrides