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H2PtCl6·nH2O. According to current regulations, depo-
The study is aimed at increasing the yield of targed
sition of a compound I includes several operations with
a total time of at least 48 hours, ensuring a product yield
of about 72%. Therefore, first, we studied the possibility
of shortening the process time and reducing the number
of operations at the given stage. Moreover, we aimed at
separating a compound I with a content of the residual
Cl- ions not exceeding 0.5%, which corresponds to the
existing requirements for platinum(IV) nitrate solution
and makes preparation of the solution simpler.
products or simplifying the operations in the existing
scheme of the preparation of platinum(IV) nitrate solu-
tions.
EXPERIMENTAL
Chloroplatinic acid produced at a Krastsvetmet Open
Joint-Stock Company plant with a platinum content of
39.1% was starting reagent in all experiments. We used
in the experiments solid H2Pt(OH)6 (65.0% Pt) and a PN
solution (16.6% Pt, d = 1.68 g·cm–3, сPt = 1.43 M, [HNO3]
≈ 13 M), prepared at the above plant. All other reagents
used were no lower than chemical purity grade.
The technique of the experiments was as follows.
A sample of solid H2PtCl6·nH2O (2.44–2.58 g) was
transferred into a narrow and high quartz vessel (capacity
about 25 ml), to which necessary amount of a carbonate-
free solution of NaOH (d = 1.42 g cm–3) was introduced
by weighing (to within ± 0.01 g) to the OH– : Pt molar
ratio about 12. Then, deionized water was added to the
mixture to a total volume of 10–12 ml, the vessel was
covered with a watch glass and heated to a boiling point
without emissions and pushes of the fluid. The boiling
point of the mixtures was 102 ± 1 °C. Boiling began after
12–15 min of switching on heating. After about 30 min
elapsed, crystals of different sizes began to form in the
systems and solutions changed color from a red-orange
to yellow. The time of the reaction was fixed in each
experiment. In some experiments, the reaction mixture
was irradiated by the UV light (a DRSh mercury lamp).
The X-ray phase analysis (XRA) of polycrystalline
samples was carried out on a DRON-RM4 diffractometer
(CuKα radiation, graphite monochromator in the reflected
beam, scintillation detector with amplitude discrimina-
tion). The samples were prepared by applying a suspen-
sion in hexane on the polished side of the cell made of
fused quartz. As an external standard was used a sample
of polycrystalline silicon (a = 5.4309 Å), prepared
similarly. The thermal analysis (DTA) was performed
on a TG 209 F1 Iris Thermo Microbalance instrument
(NETZSCH) in Al2O3 crucibles in a helium or hydrogen
atmosphere at a heating rate of 10° min–1. Experimental
data were processed with a standard Proteus Analysis
software package. In addition, a modified derivatograph
Q-1000 was used for thermal analysis in different gaseous
environments. IR spectra of samples (KBr pellets) were
recorded on a Scimitar FTS 2000 spectrophotometer in
the region 400–4000 cm–1. The content of Cl– ions in
solid samples was determined by capillary electrophoresis
(Capel-103R instrument). Prior to the analysis, complexes
were reduced to metallic platinum with hydrazine hydrate.
The content of Na+ was determined by the atomic absorp-
tion spectroscopy (AAS) on a Z 8000 spectrophotometer
(Hitachi) equipped with Zeeman background correction.
The pH values were measured with an Anion-4100 pH
meter (Infraspak-Analit). The electron absorption spectra
(EAS) were recorded on a MPC-310 spectrophotometer
(Shimadzu) and 195Pt NMR spectra, on anAvance III 500
Bruker spectrometer (frequency 107.5 MHz). Chemical
shifts, positive in a weak field, were counted from the
position of the 21.04-MHz line.
After completing the reaction, solutions with the
precipitates were cooled with an ice-water mixture,
transferred onto a finely porous glass filter, and dried to
constant weight. All the precipitate was quantitatively
transferred from the reaction vessel onto the filter. For
this purpose, we used only mother liquor, which was also
cooled to about 0 °C in most experiments. The separated
precipitates were washed with a minimal volume of ice-
cold water and then with methanol to negative reaction
for Cl- ions (the AgNO3 tests). The maximum volume of
methanol in the experiments was about 30 ml. The use
of acetone instead of СН3ОН for washing precipitate I
did not virtually allow removal of NaCl, whose presence
was clearly seen on diffraction patterns. Evidently, this
is because the solubility of the salt in methanol sharply
increases compared to acetone (1.41 wt% in the first case
[4]). The results of this series of experiments are shown
in Fig. 1.
Analyzing the data in Fig. 1, we note the following.
First, a simple cooling of the reaction mixtures to T ≈ 0 C
before separating precipitates I can significantly increase
Sodium hexahydroxoplatinate(IV). A complex
Na2Pt(OH)6 (I) is the starting product in a processing
chain used for the preparation of PN solutions from
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