John paul III
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First and second group metal carbonyls possible?
I've recently read somewhere that most metals form metal carbonyls. Immediately, I started searching for information
about alkaline/alkaline earth carbonyls, but to no avail. Do they
actually form? I'll be very grateful for any references
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BromicAcid
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Potassium carbonyl is supposedly an explosive compound. I've seen it tossed around as a general hazard while making potassium via reduction methods
involving carbon.
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I found this.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/metal-carbony...
Hopefully, this will help.
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I'm pretty sure that instead of "metal carbonyl", ions like croconate (CO)5(2-) and squarate (CO)4(2-) are formed when CO reacts with strongly
reducing metals. For example, potassium reacts with carbon monoxide to form hexapotassium benzenehexolate:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022190263...
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This. You can't form a carbonyl with a group IA or IIA metal because they have no available d orbitals. The bond between a metal and carbon monoxide
results from overlap between the molecular orbitals on CO and the d orbitals of the metal. That's why main group metals like tin and lead don't form
carbonyl complexes, either.
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