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diphenylmercury
Sign in to saveDiphenylmercury is the organomercury compound with the formula . It is a white solid. The compound is of historic interest as a particularly stable organometallic compound but it finds few uses because of its high toxicity.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C12H10Hg
- Molecular weight
- 354.8 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- diphenylmercury
- SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)[Hg]C2=CC=CC=C2
- InChIKey
- HWMTUNCVVYPZHZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Mass
- 356.049
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- chemical formula
- C₁₂H₁₀Hg
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)[Hg]C2=CC=CC=C2
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- Diphenylmercury
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Preparation
- Safety
- References
Diphenylmercury is the organomercury compound with the formula . It is a white solid. The compound is of historic interest as a particularly stable organometallic compound but it finds few uses because of its high toxicity.
==Preparation== Commercially available, this compound can be prepared by several routes. It results from treating phenylmercury acetate with sodium stannite, by the reaction of mercuric halides with phenylmagnesium bromide, and the reaction of bromobenzene with sodium amalgam.
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