"Metal halide" redirects here. For the type of lighting, see metal halide lamp.
Metal halides are compounds between metals and halogens. Some, such as sodium chloride are ionic, while others are covalently bonded. A few metal halides are discrete molecules, such as uranium hexafluoride, but most adopt polymeric structures, such as palladium chloride.[1][2]
Sodium chloride crystal structure
Discrete UF6 molecules
Infinite chains of one form of palladium chloride
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or I). Many salts are halides; the hal- syllable in halide and halite reflects this correlation. All Group 1 metals form halides that are white solids...
Alkali metalhalides, or alkali halides, are the family of inorganic compounds with the chemical formula MX, where M is an alkali metal and X is a halogen...
the halogens have been observed to react with hydrogen to form hydrogen halides. For fluorine, chlorine, and bromine, this reaction is in the form of:...
silver metal speck. Silver halides are also used to make corrective lenses darken when exposed to ultraviolet light (see photochromism). Silver halides, except...
(HPS/SON) and metalhalide (MH) HID lights, but fluorescents and LEDs are replacing metalhalides due to their efficiency and economy. Metalhalide lights are...
that NaCl is insoluble in common organic solvents. For electrophilic metalhalides, conversion to the alkoxide requires no or mild base. Titanium tetrachloride...
they require a 5–7-minute warmup period before they reach full output, metal-halides are not used for residential lighting, but for commercial and industrial...
the intensity, allowing metalhalide lamps to penetrate light to even the very bottom levels of most aquariums. Metalhalides are available in many color...
in solution and when thallium(I) halides are incorporated into alkali metalhalides. These doped alkali metalhalides have new absorption and emission...
complexes are soluble in organic solvents, in contrast to the related metalhalides. Because of these properties, acac complexes are sometimes used as catalyst...
Gold halides are compounds of gold with the halogens. AuCl, AuBr, and AuI are all crystalline solids with a structure containing alternating linear chains:...
There are three sets of gallium halides, the trihalides where gallium has oxidation state +3, the intermediate halides containing gallium in oxidation...
+ NaOH + 2H2O → Na[Be(OH)3] + H2 Reaction with alkyl halides Magnesium reacts with alkyl halides via an insertion reaction to generate Grignard reagents...
those used in the palladium catalyzed Negishi coupling with aryl halides or vinyl halides. In such cases the organozinc compound is usually prepared by transmetallation...
Potassium chloride (KCl, or potassium salt) is a metalhalide salt composed of potassium and chlorine. It is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous...
graphite with [O2]+[AsF6]− affords the salt [C8]+[AsF6]−. A number of metalhalides intercalate into graphite. The chloride derivatives have been most extensively...
known (along with other silver halides) for its unusual sensitivity to light. This property has allowed silver halides to become the basis of modern photographic...
arene can be used to synthesize bis(arene) metal complexes, e.g. bis(benzene)chromium, from certain metalhalides via the Fischer–Hafner synthesis. Dichlorophenylphosphine...
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Sodium chloride crystal structure
Discrete UF6 molecules
Infinite chains of one form of palladium chloride
