Cadet's fuming liquid
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Cadet's fuming liquid was the first organometallic compound to be synthesized. In 1760, the French chemist Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731-1799) synthesized a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide.[1]
- 4 KCH3COO + As2O3 → As2(CH3)4O + 4 K2CO3 + CO2
The liquid contains a mixture of cacodyl and cacodyl oxide. These were the first organometallic substances prepared, so Cadet can be regarded as the father of organometallic chemistry.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Seyferth, Dietmar (2001). "Cadet's Fuming Arsenical Liquid and the Cacodyl Compounds of Bunsen". Organometallics 20 (8): 1488–1498. doi:10.1021/om0101947. http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/orgnd7/2001/20/i08/abs/om0101947.html.
- ^ Gerard Jaouen. Bioorganometallics: Biomolecules, Labeling, Medicine. Wiley, 2006. ISBN 352730990X
