Hydration of Hg2+ in aqueous solution studied by neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution |
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Authors: | Sobolev Oleg Cuello Gabriel J Román-Ross Gabriela Skipper Neal T Charlet Laurent |
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Affiliation: | LGIT, University of Grenoble and CNRS, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France. Oleg.SOBOLEV@ujf-grenoble.fr |
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Abstract: | The structural parameters of Hg2+ hydration were studied in 0.225 mol/L solutions of Hg2+ in DNO3/D2O by means of neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution of 199Hg for natHg. It was found that Hg2+ is hydrated by a first solvation shell of six water molecules. The observed Hg-O and Hg-H distances are equal to 2.48+/-0.05 and 3.08+/-0.05 A, respectively. The angle phi between the plane of the water molecule and the cation-water oxygen axis is approximately 35 degrees . The solvation of Hg2+ therefore mimics very closely that of Ca2+ (the Ca-O and Ca-H distances are 2.40 and 3.03 A, respectively) and helps to account for the extreme toxicity of mercury(II). We note also that the Hg-O distance obtained in the neutron diffraction experiment is larger by approximately 0.1 A than that obtained by X-ray diffraction. This difference is consistent with a shift of the oxygen electron density toward the mercury cation due to the covalency of the Hg-O interaction. |
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