- Hexol
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Autoignition =Hexol is a
cobalt compound that was first prepared byAlfred Werner in 1914 and represented the first non-carbon-containing chiral compound. The salt with themolecular formula of [Co((OH)2Co(NH3)4)3] (SO4)3 was prepared starting fromcobalt(II) sulfate .Optical resolution of this compound was possible by treating the hexol chloride salt with the resolving agent silver d(+)-bromocamphor sulphonate in dilute acetic acid. The d-Hexol salt precipitated out from solution and the filtrate contained the l-hexol species.Werner also published a second achiral hexol (a minor byproduct from the production ofFremy's salt ) that he incorrectly identified as a linear trimer.In 2004 the second hexol was reinvestigated and found to be a
hexanuclear species.External links
* Hexol Molecule of the Month September 1997 [http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/MOTM/hexol/hexol.html Website]
* [http://www.npi.gov.au/database/substance-info/profiles/26.html National Pollutant Inventory - Cobalt fact sheet]References
* A. Werner, H. Kuh, P. Wust Ber. 1914, 47, 196
* "The rediscovery of Alfred Werner's second hexol" W. Gregory Jackson, Josephine A. McKeon, Margareta Zehnder, Markus Neuberger and Silvio FallabChemical Communications , 2004, (20), 2322 - 2323 [http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CC/article.asp?doi=b408277j Abstract]
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