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Indian Journal of Chemistry Vol. 44A, November 2005, pp. 2202-2207 Aquo complexes of simple Cu+, Ag+ and Aut ions and the acidities of metal aquo ions. A heat of hydration analysis and PM3 calculations lnan Prakash Naskar & Dipankar Datta* Department of Inorganic Che mi stry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta 700 032, India Emai l: [email protected] Received 5 Janu ary 2005; revised 14 September 2005 It is shown that the heats of hydration (l!..Jfl) of some 37 metal ions (ex.c ludin g Cu+, Ag+ and Au+) with charge Z on them varying from + I to +4 can be reproduced with an average erro r of 3.8 (± 2.7) % by the fo llowing eq uati on : Application of thi s equation to th e l!..Jfl values of Cu+, Ag+ and Au+ reveals that while no aquo complex is possible for simple Au+ ion in water, simple Cu+ ion can be 2 or 4 coordinated and Ag+ io n 2 coordinated in water. This indicates that the appearance of the factor of 53 pm in the above equation is a consequence of the hydration structure around a metal ion. Further, the experimenta l pKa va lues for some 2 1 metal aquo ions are fO llnd to correl ate linearly (corre lation coefficien t = 0.975) with the gas phase enthalpy changes l!..Jfl for the reaction [M(H 2 0)nf+ + m H 20 ~ [M(H 2 0)n+m.p.I (OH)](Z. I)+ + p H 20 + H+ calculated at the PM3 level. In exceptional cases, so me metal ions (e.g. Hg 2+) undergo expansion of the coordination spheres upon de protonation and some metal ions (e.g. TI 3+) lose water molecule(s) with deproto nation. For quite some time we have been interested in the theoretical and experimental aspects of Pearson's Hard Soft Acid Base (HSAB) principle i •2. One of the special points of interest has been the chemical bond(s) between a "hard" and a "soft" species. Though hard-soft interactions are not particularly favoured in terms of the HSAB principle, the principle does not preclude the possibility of the existence of a bond between them altogether. We have provided examples (in addition to several other examples by other workers) of this aspect by synthesizing first, a few examples of copper (I) complexes containing a discrete bond between "soft" Cu+ and "hard" H20 .2 In this connection we have been interested in the interaction of water with two additional soft iO metal ions, Ag+ and Au+. In order to gain some insights into the nature of the aquo complexes of simple Cu+, Ag+ and Au+ ions, we analyse herein the heats of hydration of these three metal ions. Theory Aquo complexes of simple metal ions undergo loss of a proton in water to form hydroxo ones (Eq. 1) where Z is the charge on the metal ion and n the number of water molecules bound to the simple metal ion in its hydrated form. Consequently aqueous solutions of many si mpl e metal salts (e.g. perchlorates) are acidic of measurable strengths . The pKa values are known experimentally for a number of metal ions3aA .5 . However, the acid dissociation behaviour of the metal aquo ions is still not very well understood. When the pKa values are plotted agai nst Z21r (r is the ionic radius), it is found that there are many significant deviants, e.g., Hg2+, Te+ etc 3a . There have been several attempts recently to explain the variation of the pK" values at molecular level with little success 6.7. The second objective of our work is to provide a rationale for the acid dissociation behaviour of the metal aquo ions. Results and Discussion From various X-ray techniques, e.g., extended Xray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy (EXAFS), large-angle X-ray scattering (LAXS), etc. , it is now recognised that there exists a discrete hydration structure around a metal ion in water8. However, NASKAR & DATIA : HEAT OF HYDRATION AND ACIDITIES OF METAL AQUO IONS hydration is by no means a static phenomenon. It is a dynamic process, where bulk water molecules are constantly in exchange with those coordinated to the metal ions, with a "time of residence" depending on Z and r of a metal ion. There has been some controversy in the number (n) of water molecules in the first coordination sphere of a metal ion, partly because this n is somewhat dependent on the concentration of the metal salt. For example, from large angle neutron diffraction coupled with molecular dynamics calcula9 tions , Pasquarello et al. have recently concluded that 2 hydrated Cu + ion is five coordinated, in contradiction to the general view of a Jahn-Teller distorted octalo hedral configuration. Later, Persson and co-workers have reaffirmed by means of EXAFS and LAXS techniques that for Cu 2+ ion in water, n is six. We have collected the most accepted values of n for some 37 metal ions (Cu+, Ag+ and Au+ not included) with Z . f rom + 1 to +4 f rom recent I'Iterature8' 10· 12 varymg (Table I), It may be noted that no monoatomic ion with Z> +4 can exist as a hydrated ion in water. It was surprising to find that despite the importance of the subject, so far the theoretical reproduction of the heats of hydration (/'t.J-f) of the metal ions has not been studied properly. It was clear from the beginning that Born equation 13 [Eq. (2)], which is equally applicable to anions and cations in a solvent of relative permittivity, c, works satisfactorily for the anions but fails miserably in cases of cations. W 10 12 O • N(Ze)~ 81t£0 r (.!.-1) c ... (2) In Eq. (2), N is Avogadro's number, e charge of an electron and co the permittivity of vacuum; the factor 12 of 10 is introduced so that r is expressed in pm. The value of c of water at 298.15K is 78.54 (ref. 14). In order to improve the applicability of Born equation to cations, earlier Stokes has considered the variation of c of water in the vicinity of cations 15. [n his approach, effective c values of water were worked out in a somewhat arbitrary manner for cations with various Z values. No cations with Z > +3 or transition metal ions were considered in his studies. Later Rashin and l6 Honig advocated the use of "covalent radius" of a cation as the r value in Eq. (2). However, their approach gave rise to errors> I 0% for the transition metal ions, While working with Eq. (2) for the alkali metal ions in water, Latimer and co-workers l7 were the first to realise that cations apparently undergo a sort of uniform expansion in their ionic radius in 2203 solution. They could reproduce the experimental heats of hydration (/'t.J-fexp) of the alkali metal ions quite well by adding a factor (c) of 85 pm to their Pauling ionic radii. Later, Phillips and Williams (see ref. 18) have tried to correlate Z2/(r + 85) with I"1WcxP for some 29 metal ions with Z varying from +1 to +3. While the overall correlation is reasonably linear, the bivalent ions of the first row transition metals and Zn 2+ seem to lie on a separate line branching off the main one. Further, in some cases like TI 3+, the ls observed deviations are significant . We now re-examine the applicability of Eq. (2) to metal ions. In deriving Eq. (2), the solvent is treated as a dielectric continuum ignoring possible solvation structures around ions. In recognition of the now known hydration structures of the metal ions in water, we decided to use the crystal ionic radii designated by Shannon l9 , which are coordination number specific. In the cases of the transition metal ions, we have used the radii in their high spin configurations since their aquo complexes are all high spin . Thus, our choice of the r values allows us to incorporate some effects of ligand fields indirectly in Born equation. Since Shannon's crystal ionic radii are numerically different from Pauling's, the factor c is expected to be different from 85 pm. In order to evaluate c, we fit the !':..Wexp dataSb via Eq . (3) for every metal ion of Table I. The average of the c values so obtained (Table I) is found to be 53 pm. The standard deviation (0') is only 7 pm showing that c is fairly a constant. With c = 53 pm in Eo . (3), we then calculated the !':..W value for a metal lon, I.e. 12 10 . N(Ze) 2 !':..H o - - - - ' - - 811:c[) (r+c) !':..H~al c . (I ) -E- I l--I 1012. N(Ze)2 / 1 811:co (r+53) c ) ... (3) ... (4) The average error in our I"1Jflcalc (Table I) is found to be 3.8 % with 0' of 2.7 . The correspondence between I"1Wcxp and our l"1fI)calc is shown in Fig. I. There are no offshoots like deviations. This is very significant when compared with the observations of Phillips and Williams (see ref. L~). We now analyse the heats of hydration for Cu+, Ag+ and Au+. According to statistical theories2o , all the data in a given set lie within ± 30' of the average value. Thus, since the value of 0' in the average in our calculated !':..W's is 2 .7%, the maximum error INDIAN 1 C HEM. SEC A. NOVEMBER 2005 2204 Table I- Heats of hydration and other data for so me metal ions (exr;l udin g Cu· , Ag+ and Au+) " Metal Ion -111-f'«p (~J mor l ) n r (pm) cb (pm) -l1l-f'calc (kJ mor l ) Erro{ (0/0 ) Li + Na + K+ Rb+ Cs+ Mg2+ Ca 2+ Sr 2+ Ba 2+ V2> Cr2+ Mn2+ Fe 2+ Co 2+ Ni 2+ Cu 2+ Zn 2+ Pd 2+ Ag2+ Cd 2+ Pb 2+ Pt 2+ AI' + Sc 3+ T i'+ V 3+ Cr3+ Mn 3• Fe'+ Co' + Ga 3+ In 3+ TI'+ La 3+ Ce 3+ Sn 4 + Ce4 + 523 418.4 330.5 3 13.8 284.5 1941.4 1598.3 1464.4 1322. 1 1895.3 1924.6 186 1.9 1958. 1 2079.4 2 12 1.3 2 121.3 2058.5 2 112.9 171 9.6 1828.4 1502. 1 2 188.2 4694.4 3962.2 4297 4405 .8 4623.3 4594 4485.2 4711.2 4702.8 4163.1 4117 . ' 33 17.9 3502 7644.2 6451.7 4 4 4 6 6 6d 8c 8 9d 6 6d d 6 6d 6d 6d h 6 6 4 4 6 6d 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6d 6 6 6 6 9d 9d 6d 9d 73 114 151 166 18 1 86 126 140 16 1f 93 94 g 97 g 92 g 88.5 g 83 87 88 78 93 109 133 74 67.5 89 81 78 75.5 78.5 g 78.5 g 75 g 76 94 164 135.6 133.6 83 1J6 f 58 50 56 53 60 55 46 47 46 52 48 50 48 43 46 42 45 52 66 41 50 51 64 67 63 59 58 56 59 56 55 54 47 50 43 61 54 544.0 413.0 336.0 313.8 293.3 1973.6 1532.6 1421.3 1282.0 1879.6 1866.5 1828.8 1892.0 1938.9 20 17. 1 1959.8 1945.6 2094.1 1879.0 1693.3 1474.9 2 160.2 5122.5 4362.2 4606.6 4712.0 4803.7 4694.0 4694.0 4822.5 4784.8 4199.1 3969.4 3272.7 3307.9 8068 .8 6493. 1 4.0 1.2 1.7 0.0 3.1 1.6 4.1 2.9 3.0 0.9 3.0 1.8 3.4 6.8 4.9 7.6 5.5 0.9 9.3 7.4 1.8 1.3 9.1 10. 1 7.2 6.9 3.9 2.2 4.6 2.4 1.7 0.9 3.6 1.4 5.5 5.5 0.6 Meanings of the symbols are same as in the tex t. Sources of data: n, ref. 11 unl ess otherwise specified; I1Ffcxp , ref. 5b; r, ref. 19. A vcrage value: 53 (± 7) pm. e Average value: 3.8 (± 2.7). d From ref. 8. C From ref. 12. f Average of radii for coordination numbers 8 and 10. g High spin value. h From ref. 10. a b permitted in l1I-fcalc is 3.8+3x 2.7=11.9%. For ready reckoning, we mention that the maximum error encountered by us in Table 1 is only to. I % (for Sc3+), which is less than the maximum error permitted. In Table 2, we find for Cu+ that the coordination numbers 2 and 4 are possible as the errors in these two cases are <1 1.9 % . However, the coordination number 6 is not possible as the error in thi s case is >11.9 %. Consequently, Cu+ can exist in water as Cu(H 20h + or Cu(H20)/. Also, no copper(l) complex with coordination number of six is known in the literature 1I. Similarly, for Ag+, we fi nd from Table 2 that onl y Ag(H 20 )z + can exist in water as the errors in M-tcalc . for n = 4 and 6 exceed 11.9%. There has been some controversy in the results of the EXAFS studies on Ag+. Some workers have concluded that only NASKAR & DATIA: HEAT OF HYDRATION AND ACIDITIES OF METAL AQUO IONS Ag(H 20h+ exists in solution while others feel that simple Ag+ ion in water is four coordinate with two mol ecules of water held firmly and two more loosell. In the case of Au+, Shannon has given its ionic radius (151 pm) only for n = 6 which leads to an error of 47.8 % in l1!fcalc. Our calculations show that for Au+, l an !1Ffcxp of 644.3 kJ mor ± 11.9% yields an r value in the range 95-121 pm and c = O. (With c = 53 pm, the same range of l1!fexp yields an r value in the range of 42-68 pm, which is unrealistically small for Au+). Shannon's crystal ionic radius for a metal ion decreases with the decrease in n. For examples, see the data for Cu+ and Ag+ in Table 2. When we compare the radius range of95-121 pm with Pauling ionic radius of 137 pm for Au +, we realise that n is 0 for Au+ in water, i.e., no hydrated species is possible for simple Au+ ion . Such a situation has been 21 suspected earlier by other workers als0 . No solution X-ray studies are reported for Cu+ and Au+ since they disproportionate in water [Eqs (5) and (6)] with large disproportionation constants (K)11.1 4. It may be noted in this context that Ag+ does not disproportionate in water. This is in keeping with the order of Pearson's hardness 22 for these three ions: Ag+ > Cu+ > Au+. K= 10 6 == Cu + Cu 2+ K = 10 3 Au+ == 2 Au + Au 3+ 10000 2205 2 Cu+ . . . (5) 10 8000 6000 0 E -, 0 .>< o I ~ 4000 <;1 2000 o 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 -6HO.,p I kJ mol" Fig. I-Correspondence between 6J·f e,p and 6.Jfealc for some 37 metal ions (Cu+, Ag+ and Au+ not included) with charge on them varying from + I to +4. For data, see Table I. The line is drawn with a slope of unity to emphasize the fit. Table 2-Heats of hydrati on and other data for Cu+, Ag+ and Au+" Metal ion -6.Jfe ,p n (kJ mor l ) Cu+ 581.6 Ao+ 0 485.3 Au+ 644.3 2 4 6 2 4 6 6 -6.Jfcalc (kJ mor l ) % error (pm) 60 74 91 81 114 129 151 607.1 540.2 476.1 511.7 410.9 377.0 336.0 4.4 b 7. 1b 18. l c 5.5 h 15.4c 22.4 c 47.8 c r a Meanings of the sy mbols are same as in Table I. Sources of data: 6.JIle,p, ref. 5b; r, ref. 19. b The va lue of n is compatible with the value of t..If ew See text. c The value of n is not compatible with the value of 6.Jfexp. See tex t. ... (6) We now come to our second objective, i.e., to rationalise the acid dissociation behaviour of the metal aquo ions. We have attempted to calculate the !1Ff values for reaction (l) in the gas phase for so me 21 metal ions with Z varying from 1 to 4 by PM3 23 method. This method, as developed by Stewart , belongs to the family of semi-empirical MO techniques of the MNDO-AM 1 series. The parameters set in PM3 are much better optimised within the basic framework of modified neglect of diatomjc overlap and the AMI theory. The parameter optimjsation is carried out by a modified method involving the derivatives of the computed properties with respect to the adjustable parameters. Better optimjsation and much larger data set make these parameters much more reliable as compared to the original MNDO-AMI parameters. All computations were done by using the HyperChem program (version 7.5). We could not carry out PM3 calculations on all the metal aquo ions for which the pKa values are available due to lack of necessary parameters. Attempts are sti ll on to optirruse the PM3 parameters for many metal 24 ions . The metal ions for which PM3 calculations have been done here are given in Table 3. The value 4 of n for Zr + in water, for which no X-ray data are available, has been set equal to 8 (Table 3) since 8 is the most common coordination number for Zr4+ (ref. 11). For Sn 2+, PM3 parameters are available. Still it is not included in our study because it seems to behave in a very peculiar manner in water8 . In our calculations, the aquo ions of all the transition metals listed in Table 3 and their monohydroxo species were treated as high spin complexes 3b . IND IAN.J CHEM , SEC A, NOVEMB ER 2005 2206 The calcu lated gas phase !1H) values of reaction ( I) for some 19 meta l ions are plotted against their pK" values in Fig. 2. The plot is somewhat scattered with L J, '+ Be2+, Mn 2+ and Hg2+ deviating conspicuously . This calcu lation could not be done for Cd 2+ and Te+ since according to our PM3 calcu lations the con'esponding monohydroxo species are not stable in the gas phase. From Fig. 2, it is apparent that the aqueous solution of a simple metal salt becomes more acidic as the gas phase thermochemical feasibility of the loss of a proton from its aquo compl ex increases. In o rder to explain the deviations, we now cons ider a general deprotonation reaction of the type (7) where we assume that deprotonation is accompanied with aquation or release of water molecule(s). It may be noted that when m = p = 0, the reaction (7) becomes reaction (I) on ly. The gas phase M·f values calculated at the PM3 level for some 21 meta l ions with various optimised values of m and p are given in Table 3. As seen from Table 3, for most of the metal ions, m = p = 0 . On ly in some exceptional cases, m or p is non-zero. A non-zero value of m indicates that the concerned metal ion undergoes further aquation with deprotonation wh ile a non-zero value of p means loss of water molecule(s) from the metal aquo ion with deprotonation. When the M-f values for reaction (7 ) are plotted against the pK" values, a ve ry satisfactory linear correlation is obtained (Fi g. 3) with Mn 2+ being the only signi ficant deviant. 15 Table 3-The acid constants (PK,,) and oth er re levant data for the deproto nation reacti o n of some metal aquo ions" OLI ' O\1g 2• Mn:o Metal ion pK" n m p -I">.H' Fc2~;O 10 (kJ mor l ) CO:!i O O Zo:::' Cu2i O Li + 13.8 Be 2+ 5.5" Mg2+ Ca 2+ M n2 Fe 2+ C0 2+ Ni 2+ C u2+ Zn 2+ Cd 2+ 11.4 12.8 II b 9.5 b 9 8.0 9 .0 10.1 Hg2+ 3.4 Pb 2+ b 0 Ti 3+ Cr3 + Fe J + C0 3+ AI J + In 3 + T1 3+ Zr4 + IO b 8 2.2d 4 .0 2.2 I" 5.0 d 4.4 0.6 -0.3 4 4 4 4 6 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 2 2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 256.5 303 .3 867 .3 1112.9 726.8 623.0 941.4 869.4 878.2 839.3 829. 3 787.8 c 723 .0 889. 1 1383.6 732.2 786.6 1370.3 1345.6 1444.3 1394.5 1197.0 1182.0 c 1474.0 1613.4 " Meanings of the symbols used are same as in the text. The pK" va lues are taken from ref. 3a unless otherwise specified. The va lue of n for Hg2+ is taken from ref. 3a and for other metal ion s are from ref. I I. b From ref. 4. C According to o ur PM 3 calculations, [M(H 0)n.,(OH)](z,,)+ is 2 not stabl e in th e gas phase. d Fro m ref. Sa. OPb :! ' -:.:." Q Olk :! < 5 o i -1600 -1200 -800 -400 l>1I"/ kJ mol " Fig. 2-Variation of pK" w ith M-f' calculated for the reaction (I ) [o r for reaction (7) with 111 =P = 0]. For data, see Ta ble 3. 15 OL" C:. 21 0 / M,"o Mn:?'. Nil; 10 c~~:g / Cd :?' a Zul' ., OO Pb~ ' Cu-' A I,I + 5 Cr.lO Be :?' OI " Jt 1I ~21 0 FeJ O Q T. J • o , -1600 -1200 -800 -400 l>H'/ kJ mol " rig. 3- Variation o f pK" with M-f' calcu lated fo r the reacti o n (7) with the o ptimi sed values of 111 and p . For data. see Table 3. Mn(H zO)62+ marked by a fi lled circle is exc luded from the least squares fit. Correlation coeffi cient = 0 .975 . NASKAR & DATTA : HEAT OF HYDRA nON AND ACIDITIES OF METAL AQUO IONS [M(H20),i+ + m H 2 0--7 [M(H 2 0)n+lI1_p_ I(OH)] (Z-ll+ + p H20 + H+ . . . (7) Conclusions We have shown that Eq . (4) can reproduce the experimental heats of hydration of a number of metal ions very well when appropriate Shannon's crystal ionic radii are used . Analysis of the heats of hydrati on for Cu+, Ag+ and Au+ by thi s equation reveals that while no aquo complex is possible for simple Au+ ion in water, simple Cu+ ion can be 2 or 4 coordinated and Ag+ ion 2 coordinated in water. Since c is 0 for Au+, its solvation in water can be adequately described in the true spirit of Born equation (Eq. (2). This finding for Au+ indicates that appearance of c in Eq. (4) is a consequence of the hydration structure around a metal ion . Here we have also examined the acid di ssoc iation behaviour of the aquo ions of many metal ions by means of PM3 calculations on reaction (7) . 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