Chemistry:Gold(III) nitrate

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Gold(III) nitrate
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Names
Other names
  • Auric nitrate
  • Gold trinitrate
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChemSpider
EC Number
  • 236-687-0
Properties
Au(NO3)3
Molar mass 382.98 g/mol
Appearance Yellow crystalline solid
Reacts
Related compounds
Related compounds
Nitroauric acid
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Infobox references

Gold(III) nitrate is a yellow-colored chemical compound with the formula Au(NO3)3. The name gold(III) nitrate usually refers to the acid, nitroauric acid even in chemistry texts due this compound easily reacting with water.[1]

Production and reactions

Gold(III) nitrate is produced by the reaction of powdered gold and hot pure nitric acid:[2]

Au + 4HNO3 → Au(NO3)3 + NO + 2H2O

It is important that there is no water because the gold(III) nitrate reacts with water and nitric acid to form nitroauric acid.

Related

Complexes containing gold(III) nitrate are also known, such as the tetraammine.[3][4]

References

  1. Arthur Messinger Comey (1896) (in en). A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities Inorganic (2nd ed.). the University of Michigan: Macmillan & Company. p. 250. 
  2. Ripan R., Chetyanu I. (1972). Inorganic chemistry. Chemistry of metals. 2. Moscow: World. 
  3. Manfait, Michel; Alix, Alain J.P.; Kappenstein, Charles (January 1981). "Raman and infrared studies of the square planar tetraammine gold(III) nitrate and its deuterate". Inorganica Chimica Acta 50: 147–152. doi:10.1016/S0020-1693(00)83735-4. 
  4. Skibsted, L. H.; Bjerrum, Jannik; Frederichsen, P. S.; Nakken, K. F. (1974). "Studies on Gold Complexes. I. Robustness, Stability and Acid Dissociation of the Tetramminegold(III) Ion.". Acta Chemica Scandinavica 28a: 740–746. doi:10.3891/acta.chem.scand.28a-0740. 
Salts and covalent derivatives of the nitrate ion