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Plumbane
Skeletal formula of plumbane
Skeletal formula of plumbane
Spacefill model of plumbane
Spacefill model of plumbane
  Lead, Pb
  Hydrogen, H
Names
IUPAC name
Plumbane
Other names
lead tetrahydride, tetrahydridolead, lead(IV) hydride, hydrogen plumbide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChemSpider
  • InChI=1S/Pb.4H checkY
    Key: XRCKXJLUPOKIPF-UHFFFAOYSA-N checkY
  • InChI=1/Pb.4H/rH4Pb/h1H4
    Key: XRCKXJLUPOKIPF-BJORFFIVAF
  • [Pb]
Properties
PbH4
Molar mass 211.23 g/mol
Appearance Colorless gas
Boiling point −13 °C (9 °F; 260 K)
Structure
Tetrahedral at the Pb atom
Related compounds
Related tetrahydride compounds
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Plumbane is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula PbH4. It is a colorless gas. It is a metal hydride and group 14 hydride composed of lead and hydrogen.[1] Plumbane is not well characterized or well known, and it is thermodynamically unstable with respect to the loss of a hydrogen atom.[2] Derivatives of plumbane include lead tetrachloride, PbCl4, and tetraethyllead, (CH3CH2)4Pb.

History

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Until recently, it was uncertain whether plumbane had ever actually been synthesized,[3] although the first reports date back to the 1920s[4] and in 1963, Saalfeld and Svec reported the observation of PbH+
4
by mass spectrometry.[5] Plumbane has repeatedly been the subject of DiracHartree–Fock relativistic calculation studies, which investigate the stabilities, geometries, and relative energies of hydrides of the formula MH4 or MH2.[2][6][7]

Properties

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Plumbane is an unstable colorless gas and is the heaviest group IV hydride;[8] and has a tetrahedral (Td) structure with an equilibrium distance between lead and hydrogen of 1.73 Å.[9] By weight, plumbane is 1.91% hydrogen and 98.09% lead. In plumbane, the formal oxidation states of hydrogen and lead are +1 and −4, respectively, because the electronegativity of lead(IV) is higher than that of hydrogen. The stability of hydrides MH4 (M = C–Pb) decreases as the atomic number of M increases.

Preparation

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Early studies of PbH4 revealed that the molecule is unstable as compared to its lighter congeners silane, germane, and stannane.[10] It cannot be made by methods used to synthesize GeH4 or SnH4.

In 1999, plumbane was synthesized from lead(II) nitrate, Pb(NO3)2, and sodium borohydride, NaBH4.[11] A non-nascent mechanism for plumbane synthesis was reported in 2005.[12]

In 2003, Wang and Andrews carefully studied the preparation of PbH4 by laser ablation and additionally identified the infrared (IR) bands.[13]

Congeners

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Congeners of plumbane include:

References

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