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Interchange of Hydrogen Isotopes in Complex Cobaltammines

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ERLENMEYER and Gartner1 have reported that interchange of hydrogen isotopes takes place when hexammine cobaltic nitrate, [Co(NH3)6] (NO3)3, is dissolved in heavy water, all the hydrogen atoms being replaceable. Bankowski2, however, has stated that the hydrogen in complex ammines is only partially replaceable, one atom being interchanged in [Co(NH3)4(H2O)2]Cl3, and three atoms in [Co(NH3)4C03]Cl.

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  1. Erlenmeyer and Gartner, Helv. chim. Acta, 17, 1008 (1934).

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  2. Bankowski, Monats., 65, 266 (1935); cf. Erlenmeyer and Lobeck, Helv. chim. Acta, 18, 1213 (1935).

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    F. W. JAMES, J. S. ANDERSON & H. V. A. BRISCOE

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JAMES, F., ANDERSON, J. & BRISCOE, H. Interchange of Hydrogen Isotopes in Complex Cobaltammines. Nature 139, 109 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139109a0

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