Talk:Plumbide

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Chlorine Trifluoride in topic Class

Anything special about these compounds?

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Are they particularly interesting in some area of chemistry or physics? Do they have any unique properties? Are they good models for some effect? Would also be good to mention why these are considered a plumbide (anionic lead) intermetallics instead of just an all-neutral-atoms simple metal alloy (though that is probably a more general topic for somewhere else that could just be linked. DMacks (talk) 04:32, 4 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry says Single atom anions are named with an -ide suffix, the definition should not be an issue. Only the third article cited mentions titanium plumbide, they all refer to Intermetallics V8rik (talk) 18:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
I had a look on SciFinder and found 75 references, including 3 reviews:
  • Z. Kristall. (1999), 214, (11), 722-734: "Valence compounds at the border to intermetallics. Alkali and alkaline earth metal stannides and plumbides"
Google gives 386 hits for "plumbide", but 2940 for "plumbides".
Greenwood & Earnshaw (pp. 391-396 of 2nd ed.) discusses Ge, Sn, Pb metal clusters, including polyplumbide anions such as D3h [Pb5]2− in red crystalline [Na(crypt)]+2[Pb5]2−, from reaction of crypt in en with the alloy NaPb1.7-2. [Pb9]4− stable in liq. NH3. Polymetallic-cluster anions also known, e.g. [Sn9-xPbx]4−.
Ben (talk) 19:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Where to go

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I'm not really sure where to go from here. I'm finding articles like doi:10.1016/S0925-8388(03)00437-7, but they are all scientific papers, and I don't really know how to turn these references into an encyclopedia article. Chlorine Trifluoride (talk) 01:21, 5 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

It's better to start with textbooks, and if those don't contain enough detail, go to review articles (secondary sources). Only when the importance and context is explained, using such references, is it really appropriate to add detail from primary literature (research articles). Try Greenwood and Earnshaw for a start, I've given the pages numbers and a summary above.
Ben (talk) 02:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Okay, I will. Chlorine Trifluoride (talk) 02:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

More refs

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I searched for articles citing Inorg. Chem. (1977) 16, 903–907 and found these:

Ben (talk) 20:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

More Sections

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From the new references that are above, it appears that each lead anion could eventually have its own section in the article. Chlorine Trifluoride (talk) 01:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Class

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Is this article up to start class yet? Chlorine Trifluoride (talk) 18:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)Reply