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The ELement - 1934 Main VoLume 2 Compounds of Nitrogen with Hydrogen - 1935 Main VoLume 3 Compounds of Nitrogen with Oxygen - 1936 Main VoLume 4 Compounds with Oxygen - 1936 Supplement Volume B 2 Compounds with NobLe Gases and Hydrogen - 1993 (present volume) Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry 8th Edition N Nitrogen Supplement Volume B 2 Compounds with NobLe Gases and Hydrogen (continued) With 2 illustrations AUTHORS Reinhard HauboLd, CLaudia Heinrich-SterzeL, Peter MerLet, ULrike Ohms-Bredeman, CaroL Strametz, Astrid WieteLmann EDITORS Dieter KoscheL, Peter MerLet, Astrid WieteLmann CHIEF EDITOR Peter MerLet System Number 4 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1993 LITERATURE CLOSING DATE: MID 1992 IN SOME CASES MORE RECENT DATA HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: Agr 25-1383 ISBN 978-3-662-06338-5 ISBN 978-3-662-06336-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-06336-1 This work is subject to copyright. ALL rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, reuse of iLLustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to "Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Munich. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1993 Originally published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin in 1993. Solkover reprint of the hardcover 8th edition 1993 The use of registered names, trademarks, etc., in this publication does not impLy, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the reLevant protective Laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Preface "Nitrogen" SuppL. Vol. 82 continues the description of binary compounds composed of nitrogen and hydrogen (nitrogen hydrides). While" Nitrogen" SuppL. Vol. 81 covers mono nitrogen compounds, the present volume comprises compounds having two, three, four, or more nitrogen atoms. Hydrazine, N2H4, and its ions N2Ht and N2H~+ were not included. (Reference is made to a voluminous monograph: E.W. Schmidt, Hydrazine and its Deriva tives: Preparation, Properties, Applications, Chichester 1984, 1088 pages.) Among the dinitrogen compounds, the diazenyl cation, N2H+, has been extensively inves tigated, especially in regards to spectroscopic and kinetic properties, because of its occur rence in interstellar space. Chemically well-characterized are diazene, N2H2, the simplest unsaturated nitrogen hydride which is used as a hydrogenation reagent, and the hydrazyl radical, N2H3, which is frequently present as an intermediate during the formation and decay of nitrogen-hydrogen compounds. The major portion of this volume is taken up by hydrogen azide or hydrazoic acid, HN3, the first member in the series of trinitrogen compounds. Known to be highly explosive in pure form, it can be safely handled when diluted. Thus, a great deal of information is available mainly on its properties as a chemical reagent and its decomposition processes. Other compounds with three or more nitrogens which are stable at room temperature include 2-tetrazene, N4H4, ammonium azide, NH4N3, and hydrazinium azide, N2HSN3. Cyclo triazane, C-N3H3' and triazane, N3HS' were isolated as Ag+ complexes. The aminodiazonium ion, N3Ht, and the triazanium ion, N3Ht, form isolable salts. Some other nitrogen hydrides such as triazene, N3H3' 1,3-tetrazadiene, N4H2, and tetrazane, N4H6, were thought to form only as intermediates. Occasionally they were identified by physical techniques. In several cases, where the binary nitrogen hydrides cannot be isolated other than in the form of organic derivatives, the data available for the organic derivatives were included when they were thought to be characteristic for the particular unsubstituted N-H parent compound. A series of other, hypothetical nitrogen hydrides have so far only been studied by quantum chemical methods. The volume closes with a few ternary compounds composed of nitrogen, hydrogen, and noble gases. Frankfurt am Main Peter Merlet September 1993