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The Chemistry of Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine

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Preface

PART I: CHLORINE, BROMINE, IODINE AND ASTATINE

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. GENERAL ATOMIC PROPERTIES

1.2. IRREGULARITIES OF BEHAVIOUR OF THE HALOGENS

1.3. THERMODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF THE CHEMISTRY OF THE HALOGENS

1.4. SUBSEQUENT TREATMENT OF CHLORINE, BROMINE, IODINE AND ASTATINE

1.5. PSEUDOHALOGENS

GENERAL REFERENCES

CHAPTER 2. THE ELEMENTS CHLORINE, BROMINE AND IODINE

2.1. DISCOVERY AND HISTORY

2.2. NATURAL OCCURRENCE

2.3. FORMATION OF THE ELEMENTARY HALOGENS

2.4. USES OF CHLORINE, BROMINE AND IODINE

2.5. ATOMIC CHLORINE, BROMINE AND IODINE

2.6. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MOLECULAR HALOGENS

2.7. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE HALOGENS

2.8. ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION OF THE ELEMENTARY HALOGENS

2.9. BIOLOGICAL ACTION OF THE ELEMENTARY HALOGENS

CHAPTER 3. HALIDE IONS AND RELATED SPECIES: OXIDATION STATE–1

3.1. PROPERTIES OF THE HALIDE IONS

3.2. GENERAL PROPERTIES OF HALIDES

3.3. THE HYDROGEN HALIDES

3.4. DETECTION AND ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION OF THE HYDROGEN HALIDES AND HALIDE IONS

3.5. BIOLOGICAL ACTION OF THE HYDROGEN HALIDES AND HALIDE IONS

CHAPTER 4. DERIVATIVES OF CHLORINE, BROMINE AND IODINE INPOSITIVE OXIDATION STATES

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE HALOGENS IN OXIDIZING ACIDIC MEDIA

3. THE INTERHALOGENS WITH HALIDE ION-ACCEPTORS

4. HALOGEN CATIONS IN AROMATIC HALOGENATION

5. POSITIVE HALOGEN DERIVATIVES IN NON-AQUEOUS SOLVENTS

6. MONATOMIC CATIONS X+

7. THE DIATOMIC CATIONS X2+

8. TRIATOMIC CATIONS X3+ AND XY2+

9. PENTATOMIC CATIONS

10. IF6+

11. HALOGEN OXOCATIONS

CHAPTER 5. ASTATINE

5.1. INTRODUCTION

5.2. HISTORY, DISCOVERY AND NATURAL OCCURRENCE

5.3. ISOTOPES OF ASTATINE

5.4. PREPARATION, SEPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF ASTATINE

5.5. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ASTATINE AND ITS COMPOUNDS

5.6. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ASTATINE

5.7. BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR OF ASTATINE

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