The Oxidation of Triethylbismuth

G Calingaert, H Soroos, V Hnizda

Index: Calingaert; Soroos; Hnizda Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1942 , vol. 64, p. 392

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Abstract

It is generally known'that trialkylbismuth compounds are oxidized by air at ordinary temperatures so rapidly that they ignite spontaneously, in some cases with explosive violence.? Under these conditions the bismuth compound is probably oxidized completely to bismuth trioxide. Reports of studies on the intermediate steps or of the mechanism of such oxidations have not appeared in the literature. It was the purpose of the present work to ...