Nickel can form various double salts.
Nickel is one of the metals that can form Tutton's salts. The singly charged ion can be any of the full range of potassium, rubidium, cesium, ammonium (NH4), or thallium. [1]
As a mineral the ammonium nickel salt, (NH4)2Ni(SO4)2 · 6 H2O, can be called nickelboussingaultite. [2] With sodium, the double sulfate is nickelblödite Na2Ni(SO4)2 · 4 H2O from the blödite family. Nickel can be substituted by other divalent metals of similar sized to make mixtures that crystallise in the same form. [3]
Anhydrous salts of the formula M2Ni2(SO4)3, which can be termed metal nickel trisulfates, belong to the family of langbeinites. The known salts include (NH4)2Ni2(SO4)3, K2Ni2(SO4)3 and Rb2Ni2(SO4)3, and those of Tl and Cs are predicted to exist.[ citation needed ]
Double fluorides include the fluoroanion salts, and those fluoronickelates such as NiF4 and NiF6: [4]
Nickel trichloride double salts exist which are polymers. Nickel is in octahedral coordination, with double halogen bridges. Examples of this include RbNiCl3, pinkish tan coloured H2NN(CH3)3NiCl3. [5]
Other double trichlorides include:
The tetrachloronickelates contain a tetrahedral NiCl42− and are dark blue. Some salts of organic bases are ionic liquids at standard conditions. [8] Tetramethylammonium nickel trichloride is pink and very insoluble. [9]
Other tetrachlorides include:
Double hexachlorides include:
Thallic nickel octochloride 2TlCl3·NiCl2·8H2O is bright green. [10]
Copper nickel dioxychloride 2CuO·NiCl2·6H2O and copper nickel trioxychloride 3CuO·NiCl2·4H2O exist. [6]
Double bromides include the tetrabromonickelates. Other salts include: [11] [12]
The tetraiodonickelates are blood-red coloured salts of the NiI4 ion with large cations. The diperiodatonickelates of nickel(IV) are strong oxidisers, and akali monoperiodatonickelates also are known.[ citation needed ]
Double iodides include: [13]
Nickel forms double nitrates with the lighter rare-earth elements. The solid crystals have the formula Ni3Me2(NO3)12•24H2O. The metals include La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd and the non rare earth Bi. Nickel can also be replaced by similar divalent ions Mg, Mn, Co, and Zn. For the nickel salts melting temperatures range from 110.5° for La, 108.5° for Ce, 108° for Pr, 105.6° for Nd, 92.2° for Sm and down to 72.5° for Gd, the Bi salt melting at 69°. Crystal structure is hexagonal with Z=3. [14] Ni3La2(NO3)12•24H2O becomes ferromagnetic below 0.393 K. [15] These double nickel nitrates have been used to separate the rare earth elements by fractional crystallization. [16]
Nickel thorium nitrate has formula NiTh(NO3)6 · 8 H2O. Nickel atoms can be substituted by other ions with radius 0.69 to 0.83 Å. The nitrates are coordinated on the thorium atom and the water to the nickel. Enthalpy of solution of the octahydrate is 7 kJ/mol. Enthalpy of formation is -4360 kJ/mol. At 109° the octahydrate becomes NiTh(NO3)6•6H2O, and at 190° NiTh(NO3)6•3H2O and anhydrous at 215°. [17] The hexahydrate has Pa3 cubic structure. [17]
The nitronickelates are a class of chemical compounds containing a nickel atom complexed by nitro groups, –NO2. Nickel can be in a +2 or +3 oxidation state. There can be five (pentanitronickelates), or six, (hexanitronickelates) nitro groups per nickel atom. They can be considered the double nitrites of nickel nitrite.
Various double amides containing nickel clusters have been made using liquid ammonia as a solvent. These are called amidonickel compounds. [18]
These include:
Nickel dihydrogen phosphide (Ni(PH2)2) can form orange, green or black double salts KNi(PH2)3) that crystallise from liquid ammonia. They are unstable above -78 °C, giving off ammonia, phosphine and hydrogen. [22]
Nickel forms double salts with Tutton's salt structure with tetrafluoroberyllate and a range of cations including ammonia, [23] potassium, rubidium, cesium, [24] and thallium. [25]
Some minerals are double salts, for example nickelzippeite Ni2(UO2)6(SO4)3(OH)10 · 16H2O which is isomorphic to cobaltzippeite, magnesiozippeite and zinczippeite, part of the zippeite group. [26]
| formula | name | mol | struct | cell Å | ° | V | Z | density | colour | refs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wt | a | b | c | β | Å3 | g/cm3 | ||||||
| Li2[NiF(PO4)] | Lithium nickel fluorophosphate | 186.56 | orthorhombic | 10.473 | 6.289 | 10.846 | 714.3 | 8 | 3.469 | [27] | ||
| Na2[NiF(PO4)] | sodium nickel fluorophosphate | 218.645 | Pbcn | 90 | 823.4 | [28] | ||||||
| Na2Ni(SO4)2 · 4 H2O | nickelblödite | 368.867 | monoclinic | 11.045 | 8.193 | 5.535 | 100.50 | 2.487 | green | [29] | ||
| K2Ni2(SO4)3 | potassium nickel trisulfate | 483.77 | orthorhombic | 9.8436 | 9.8436 | 9.8436 | 90 | 3.369 | [30] | |||
| Rb2Ni2(SO4)3 | rubidium nickel trisulfate | 576.51 | 9.9217 | 9.9217 | 9.9217 | 90 | 3.921 | [31] | ||||
| (NH4)2Ni2(SO4)3 | ammonium nickel trisulfate | 441.65 | orthorhombic | 9.904 | 9.904 | 9.904 | 90 | 3.02 | [32] | |||
| (NH4)4Ni3(SO4)5 | ammonium nickel pentasulfate | 728.56 | yellow | [33] | ||||||||
| NiLa(SeO3)2Cl | nickel lanthanum diselenite chloride | 486.977 | hexagonal | 8.666 | 18.662 | 1194.2 | 6 | (153K) | [34] | |||
| NiNd10(SeO3)12Cl8 | nickel Neodymium diselenite chloride | monoclinic | 15.8175 | 1578,68 | 19.276 | 114.202 | 7407 | 4 | (153K) | [35] | ||
| Ni6Fe3+2(SO4)(OH)16 · 4 H2O | honessite | 904.08 | trigonal | 3.083 | 26.71 | 219.86 | 0.25 | 1.71 | green | [36] | ||
| NiTi(SO4)3 | nickel titanium sulfate | monoclinic | 8.254 | 8.54 | 14.1444 | 124.967 | 817 | 4 | 3.21 | [37] | ||
| Na2Ni(SeO4)2 · 2 H2O | sodium nickel selenate dihydrate | triclinic | 5.507 | 5.905 | 7.172 | α = 108.56 °, β = 99.07 °, γ = 106.35 ° | 204.2 | 1 | [38] | |||
| K2Ni(SeO4)2 · 2 H2O | potassium nickel selenate dihydrate | [39] | ||||||||||
| K2Ni(SeO4)2 · 6 H2O | potassium nickel selenate Tuttons salt | 527.52 | monoclinic | a | b | c | 104.45 | 4 | 2.559 | bright green | [40] | |
| Rb2Ni(SeO4)2 · 6 H2O | rubidium nickel selenate Tuttons salt | 619.62 | monoclinic | a | b | c | 105.20 | 4 | 2.856 | bright green | [40] | |
| Cs2Ni(SeO4)2 · 6 H2O | caesium nickel selenate Tuttons salt | 713.62 | monoclinic | 9.426 | 12.961 | 6.473 | 106.17 | 759.5 | 2 | 3.114 | bright emerald green | [40] [41] |
| (NH4)2Ni(SeO4)2 · 6 H2O | ammonium nickel selenate Tuttons salt | 485.68 | monoclinic | a | b | c | 106.29 | 4 | 2.243 | bright green | [40] | |
| Tl2Ni(SeO4)2 · 6 H2O | thallium nickel selenate Tuttons salt | monoclinic | a | b | c | 105.60 | 4 | 3.993 | bright green | [42] | ||
| K2NiP2O7 | 310.85 | monoclinic P21 | 9.230 | 17.540 | 8.32 | 91.44 | 1346.3 | 8 | 3.067 | [43] | ||
| K6Sr2Ni5(P2O7)5 | 786.55 | monoclinic P21/c | 11.038 | 9.53 | 7.438 | 100.13 | 1578 | 2 | 3.309 | yellow | [43] | |
| NaNi2(SO4)2[(H2O)(OH)] | monoclinic C2/m Natrochalcite-type | 8.605 | 6.185 | 7.336 | 114.78 | 354.5 | 2 | [44] | ||||
| BaNi2(PO4)2 | barium nickel phosphate | Trigonal R-3 | 4.8112 | 4.8112 | 23.302 | 467.1 | 3 | green | [45] | |||
| BaNi2(AsO4)2 | barium nickel arsenate | Trigonal R-3 | 4.945 | 4.945 | 23.61 | 532.59 | 3 | 5.31 | [45] | |||
| BaNi2(VO4)2 | barium nickel vanadate | Trigonal R-3 | 5.0375 | 5.0375 | 22.33 | 3 | [46] | |||||
| Na4Ni7(AsO4)6 | tetrasodium heptanickel hexaarsenate | 1336.3 | monoclinic C2/m | 14.538 | 14.505 | 10.6120 | 118.299 | 1970.3 | 4 | brown | [47] | |
| K2Ni(CO3)2 · H2O | potassium nickel carbonate Potassium tetraaquadicarbonatonickelate | monoclinic Baylissite-type | 6.755 | 6.156 | 12.2406 | 113.265 | 467.6 | 2 | 2.34 | [48] | ||
| Rb2Ni(CO3)2 · H2O | Rubidium nickel carbonate | monoclinic Baylissite-type | 6.971 | 6.348 | 12.2807 | 114.289 | 495.34 | 2 | 2.83 | [49] | ||
| NiTh(NO3)6 · 8 H2O | nickel thorium nitrate | Monoclinic P21/c | 9.089 | 8.728 | 13.565 | 96.65 | 1068.8(2) | [17] | ||||
| K[NiGa2(PO4)3(H2O)2] | Potassium nickel(II) gallium phosphate hydrate | 558.17 | Monoclinic C2/c | 13.209 | 10.173 | 8.813 | 107.68 | 1128.4 | Z = 4 | [50] | ||
| KNi3(PO4)P2O7 | Potassium trinickel(II) orthophosphate diphosphate | 484.14 | Monoclinic | 9.8591 | 9.3953 | 9.9778 | 118.965 | 808.63 | 4 | [51] | ||
| KNiPO4 | potassium nickel phosphate | [52] | ||||||||||
| KNiPO4 · 6 H2O | potassium nickel phosphate hexahydrate | monoclinic P21 | 6.8309 | 11.0610 | 6.1165 | 91.045 | 462.07 | 2 | [53] | |||
| NiK4(P3O9)2 · 7 H2O | nickel potassium tricyclophosphate hydrate | orthorhombic Fm2m | 23.03 | 11.882 | 8.732 | 4 | blue | [54] | ||||
| NiK4(P3O9)2 | nickel potassium tricyclophosphate | triclinic P-1 | 6.143 | 6.80 | 12.80 | α=102.8 β=89.7 γ=66.03 | 473.56 | 1 | [54] | |||
| NaK5Ni5(P2O7)4 | Sodium pentapotassium pentanickel tetra(diphosphate) | 1207.80 | triclinic | 7.188 | 9.282 | 10.026(5) | α=109.31 β=90.02 γ=104.07 | 610.0 | 1 | [55] | ||
| NH4NiPO4·H2O | ammonium nickel phosphate hydrate | orthorhombic | 5.566 | 8.760 | 4.742 | 231.2 | [56] | |||||
| NH4NiPO4·6H2O | ammonium nickel phosphate hydrate Ni-struvite | Orthorhombic Pmn21 | 6.924 | 6.104 | 11.166 | 471.5 | 2 | [57] [58] [59] | ||||
| LiNiPO4 | lithium nickel phosphate | orthorhombic | 10.032 | 5.855 | 4.681 | 274.9 | 4 | brown | [60] | |||
| NaNiPO4 | sodium nickel phosphate | Pnma maricite structure | 8.7839 | 6.7426 | 5.0368 | 298.31 | 4 | yellow | [61] | |||
| NaNiPO4 | sodium nickel phosphate | Pnma triphylite form | 4.98 | 6.13 | 9.98 | 304.23 | [62] | |||||
| Na4Ni7(PO4)6 | Cm | 10.550 | 13.985 | 6.398 | 104.87 | 912.4 | 2 | 3.906 | [61] [63] | |||
| NaNiPO4 · 7 H2O | sodium nickel phosphate heptahydrate | tetrahedral P42/mmc | 6.7390 | 10.9690 | 498.15 | 2 | [53] | |||||
| Na3NiP3O10 · 12 H2O | trisodium nickel triphosphate dodecahydrate | monoclinic (pseudoorthorhombic) | 15.0236 | 9.1972 | 14.6654. | 90.0492 | 2014.46 | 1.967 | light green | [64] | ||
| Na5Ni2(PO4)3 · H2O | Pentasodium dinickel triphosphate hydrate | monoclinic space group P21/n | 14.0395 | 5.185 | 16.4739 | 110.419 | [65] | |||||
| Na6Ni2(PO4)3OH | orthorhombic Pcmb | 7.501 | 21.4661 | 7.173 | [65] | |||||||
| Na2Ni3(OH)2(PO4)2 | sodium nickel hydroxide phosphate | monoclinic | 14.259 | 5.695 | 4.933 | 104.28 | 2 | 3.816 | [66] | |||
| NiNa4(P3O9)2 · 6 H2O | nickel tetrasodium cyclotriphosphate hexahydrate | triclinic | 6.157 | 6.820 | 10.918 | α=80.21 β=97.8 γ=119.5 | 409.8 | 1 | [67] | |||
| NiRb4(P3O9)2 | nickel tetrarubidium cyclotriphosphate | P-31c | 7.288 | 7.288 | 20.343 | 2 | [68] | |||||
| NiCs4(P3O9)2 · 6 H2O | nickel tetracaesium cyclotriphosphate hydrate | orthorhombic | 19.992 | 6.500 | 18.445 | 4 | [54] | |||||
| NiCs4(PO3)6 | nickel tetracaesium cyclotriphosphate | rhombohedral P-31c | 11.602 | 11.602 | 9.078 | 1058.24 | 2 | [54] | ||||
| NiAg4(P3O9)2 · 6 H2O | nickel tetrasilver cyclotriphosphate hexahydrate | triclinic | 9.209 | 8.053 | 6.841 | α=89.15 β=102.94 γ=97.24 | 1 | [69] | ||||
| NiAg4(P3O9)2 | nickel tetrasilver cyclotriphosphate | triclinic | 6.100 | 6.783 | 10.764 | α = 78.66 β=96.85 γ=113.36 | 401 | 1 | [69] | |||
| Ni(NH4)4(P3O9)2 · 4 H2O | nickel tetraammonium cyclotriphosphate tetrahydrate | monoclinic | 2 | [70] | ||||||||
| TlNi4(PO4)3 | Thallium nickel triphosphate | orthorhombic Cmc21 | 4 | pale yellow | [71] | |||||||
| Tl4Ni6(PO4)6 | Thallium nickel hexaphosphate | monoclinic Cm | 4 | yellow brown | [71] | |||||||
| Tl2Ni4P2O7(PO4)2 | monoclinic C2/c | 8 | brown | [71] | ||||||||
| NiMnSb | Nickel manganese antimonide | cubic | 5.945 | 210.1 | 4 | 7.57 | [72] | |||||
| NiMnSi | Nickel manganese silicide | Orthorhombic | 5.8967 | 3.6124 | 6.9162 | 147.32 | 4 | [73] [74] | ||||
| NiMnGe | orthorhombic Pnma | 6.053 | 3.769 | 7.090 | 161.75 | 2 | [75] | |||||
| NiFeGe | hexagonal | [75] | ||||||||||
| TiNiSi | orthorhombic | [75] | ||||||||||
| NaNiIO6 | sodium nickel periodate | orthorhombic | 8.599 | 2.492 | 10.281 | 220.3 | [76] | |||||
| KNiIO6 | potassium nickel periodate | orthorhombic | 12.09 | 3.683 | 6.062 | 269.9 | [76] | |||||
| KNiIO6 | potassium nickel periodate | triclinic | 6.4203 | 5.075 | 4.223 | α= 65.07 β= 92.717 γ=109.95 | 116.51 | [76] | ||||