FERRIC SODIUM OXALATE
- CAS No.
- 5936-14-1
- Chemical Name:
- FERRIC SODIUM OXALATE
- Synonyms
- SODIUM FERRIC OXALATE;FERRIC SODIUM OXALATE;Ironic oxalate sodium;Sodium trioxalatoferrate(III);Sodium ferric oxalate hydrate;Sodium ferric oxalate trihydrate;Trisodium tris(oxalato)ferrate(3-)
- CBNumber:
- CB4752297
- Molecular Formula:
- C6FeNa3O12
- Molecular Weight:
- 388.87
- MDL Number:
- MFCD00050738
- MOL File:
- Mol file
| solubility | This compound is very soluble in hot water, (182 parts per 100 parts solvent by mass), but a lot less soluble in cold water, (32 parts per 100 parts solvent), about the solubility of sodium chloride. It is not appreciably soluble in ethanol or ethanol water mixtures which are more than 50% ethanol by mass. It is somewhat more soluble in water than the corresponding potassium salt. |
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FERRIC SODIUM OXALATE Chemical Properties,Uses,Production
Description
Sodium ferri oxalate, also known as sodium oxalatoferrate, is a chemical compound with the formula Na3[Fe(C2O4)3], where iron is in the +3 oxidation state. It is an octahedral transition metal complex in which three bidentate oxalate ions act as ligands bound to an iron centre. Sodium acts as a counterion, balancing the -3 charge of the complex. Crystals of the hydrated form of the complex, Na3[Fe(C2O4)x].xH2O, are lime green in colour. In solution the complex dissociates to give the ferrioxalate anion, [Fe(C2O4)3]3-, which appears a deep apple green in colour.
Chemical Properties
Emerald-green crystals, decomposed by heat or light. protect from light. Soluble in water and alcohol.
Physical properties
The bonds to the iron atom are dative covalent bonds where the ligands, (oxalate ions, blue), donate a lone pair into the empty p and d orbitals of the transition metal (iron, red), atom. The three oxalate ions donate 12 electrons in all and Fe-III has three electrons in the d orbitals leaving 13 empty places in the remaining d and p orbitals.
Characteristics
In solution the ferrioxalate complex is decomposed by light. This is described in more detail under potassium ferrioxalate. Some samples of the crystals were exposed to direct sunlight for a few hours, the larger crystals did not appear to be affected, however solutions and small crystals so exposed did change colour to a different shade of green.
If a solution containing both green ferrioxalate ions and colourless free oxalate ions is exposed to strong light, such as direct sunlight, the light allows the Iron-III to oxidize one of the oxalate ligands to carbon dioxide and gives the orange-brown ferrooxalate complex ion which is coordinated around an Iron-II centre, however, when placed in the dark the Iron - II is re - oxidized to Iron-III by the oxygen in the atmosphere and the green ferrioxalate complex ion reforms. The orange - brown Iron - II complex starts to appear after around ten minutes exposure and after the passage of a few hours in direct sunlight more than half of the green Iron - III complex had been reduced. The re-oxidation in the dark is equally slow and observable under ambient electric lighting. If this process is allowed to repeat over many months, such as leaving a container outside where it is exposed to the sun each day, eventually almost all of the oxalate ions present are oxidized to carbonate and the iron remains as Ferric Hydroxide, Fe(OH)3.
Characteristics
The ferri oxalate complex demonstrates optical activity since there are two non-superimposable stereoisomers of the complex. This is described in more detail under potassium ferrioxalate. Theoretically the two stereoisomers could be separated by crystallization of a diastereomeric salt of the optically inactive racemic mixture of ferrioxalate ions with an optically active cation, such as methylethylpropylammonium ion which is one pure enantomer. Thus methylethylpropylammonium ferrioxalate should crystallize out to produce crystals which are non superimposable mirror images. These would be Λ-methyl ethyl propyl ammonium Λ-ferri oxalate and Λ- methyl ethyl propyl ammonium Δ-ferri oxalate.
Uses
In contemporary times ferrioxalate salts, usually the potassium salt, are used as exampls of a transition metal ligand complexes which can be easily synthesized by high school, college or undergraduate university students to introduce them to transition metal ligand chemistry, as well as to redox chemistry in now-obsolete photographic processes.
The process of blueprint making, now also nearly obsolete, makes use of Iron-cyanide ligand complexes such as Ferricyanide and Ferrocyanide and redox reactions related to them. The presence of free Iron-II ions and oxalate ions gives rise to a whole family of Iron centered ligand complexes exhibiting intense blue colours. The best known of these is Prussian Blue, Potassium Ferrous Ferrocyanide.
Uses
Photography, blueprinting.
Preparation
The crystals pictured were synthesised by mixing solutions of sodium oxalate and ferric oxalate and waiting a few hours for the brown colour of the ferric oxalate to be replaced with the green colour of the complex anion. This complex is relatively inert and the equilibrium is attained only slowly at room temperature. The ferric oxalate was made by dissolving rust in oxalic acid and filtering off any residual insolubles. The solution was evaporated at just below boiling until small crystals appeared on the bottom indicating the solution was then hot and saturated. The solution was allowed to cool in a beaker sitting on a large aluminium block. The thermal mass of the block allowed sufficiently slow cooling over night to produce crystals a few milimetres long. These larger crystals are pictured at the upper left.
Fe2(C2O4)3 + 3 Na2(C2O4) → 2 Na3[Fe(C2O4)3]
Stoichiometry was not worried about and an excess of sodium oxalate was added, this is a lot less soluble in hot water than the ferrioxalate and crystallizes out first. The intensity of the green colour was used as a guide to concentration of the solution with respect to the complex. A few drops of 100 vol hydrogen peroxide were periodically added during the evaporation to maintain the iron in the III oxidation state and any insoluble ferrous oxalate was removed if it precipitated out.
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2020-02-26 | Ferric sodium oxalate
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- Ferric sodium oxalate
5936-14-1
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