Hydrogen summary

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  • Hydrogen
    • Industrial production
      • Water - Gas shift reaction
        • CO reacted with heated steam
          • Yields CO2 and 1 mole H2
      • Coal gassification
        • Solid carbon heated to over 1000 degrees with steam
          • Yields CO and 1 mole H2
      • Catalysed electrolysis
        • Ni anodes and Fe cathodes electrolyse water using overpotential
          • Yields 1 mole of H2 per mole H2O
      • Steam reformation of natural gas
        • Methane gas is reacted with steam over a catalyst
          • Yields CO and 3 moles H2
      • Chloro-alkali process
        • NaOH generated from NaCl using water
          • Generates 1/2 mole H2 per mole H2O as byproduct
    • H+ & H- ions
      • H+
        • Extremely strong Lewis acid
          • Tends to always be found with a Lewis base
        • So strong it can interact with Helium
          • But doesn't bond to the helium
        • pH = -log[H+]
      • H-
        • Highly polarisable
        • Mostly found in lattice arrangements
          • E.g as a lattice with group 1 metals
      • Other isotopes of H (D, T) also form these ions but are relatively useless
    • Hydrogen Bonding
      • Occurs when H bonded to atom with high electronegativity
      • for E-H, E must have a lone pair for H bonding to happen
      • E-H bond heavily polarised
        • As such, LP on E can interact with H in other E-H molecule
      • Singular H bonds very weak
        • Collectivly, H bonds increase Bp e.g. H2O
    • Compounds of Hydrogen
      • Molecular hydrides
        • Formed by P block elements and Be
          • Acts as proton donors
            • Acidity increases left to right and down periodic table
        • All named with -ane suffix
        • Normally compounds formed are electron precise
          • Or electron rich. e.g. Ammonia, water
          • Or electron deficient. e.g. borane
            • As a result of the deficiency, compounds form 2 electron, 3 centre bonds as opposed to standard 2 centre, 2 electron bonds
              • e.g. B2H6
        • Thermal decomposition to H2 and pure element
      • Saline hydrides
        • Ionic solids with discrete H- ions
          • Group 1
            • Adopts Rock salt formation
          • Group 2
            • adopts Fluorite formation at high temp and lead chloride formation at low temp
          • MgH2 adopts rutile formation
        • All are insoluble in non-aqueous solutions
        • Reacts violently with water
          • Group 1 > Group 2
    • Dihydrogen cleavage
      • Either produce 2H radicals
        • Homolytic cleavage
      • Or produces H- & H+
        • Heterolytic cleavage
      • Requires very high energy and/or catalyst
        • Usually done on a metallic surface or in solution
        • natural catalysts such as metalloenzymes can cleave H2
      • H2 can be broken by halogens in a free radical substitution mechanism
        • X2 breaks to give 2X radicals. These then cleave H-H bond

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