Co-ordination chemistry of the methylmercury(II) ion in aqueous solution: a thermodynamic investigation

On the Chalcogenophilicity of Mercury: Evidence for a Strong Hg−Se Bond in [TmBut]HgSePh and Its Relevance to the Toxicity of Mercury

“…Thus, while mercury is typically regarded to be thiophilic and bind strongly to mercapto groups, it is evident that mercury possesses a greater selenophilicity relative to other metals. The enhanced preference for mercury to bind selenium is, nevertheless, in accord with the empirical classifications of Hg 2+ as a class (b)56 acceptor and as a soft57 Lewis acid 58…”

Influence of initiators on the growth of poly(ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate) nanofibers

“…Table 2 lists the anionic initiators along their respective pK s and pK a values and the corresponding morphology of the polymer observed by SEM. The pK s and pK a values shown in Table 2 were obtained from reports published in the literature [20][21][22][23][24]. For certain anions whose pK s values were unavailable, estimations were made for their values.…”

An assessment of thermodynamic reaction constants for simulating aqueous environmental monomethylmercury speciation

“…This figure illustrates that, depending on the requisite data quality objectives, errors from the Davies implementation in MINTEQA2 may be significant at ionic strengths in excess of 0.1 M (Butler, 1964;Butler and Cogley, 1998). Rabenstein et al, 1975Rabenstein et al, , 1978) (Ingman and Liam, 1974; + 0.07, 3 sd) (Tobias, 1978) (Erni, 1996) et al, 1998; 0.0 M, 25 C) These values contrast with equivalent 25 C 0.15 M NaClO 4 values reported by Alderighi et al (2003) using the stoichiometry given in equation (1):…”

“…The numerical constant describing this formulation will equal that of equation (1) if the activity of water is assumed to remain constant at 1. Alternatively, Alderighi et al (2003; and references cited therein) maintain that specification of the CH 3 Hg þ ion is, in fact, a less rigorous convention representing the hydrated CH 3 HgOH 2 þ species.…”