A pale-green crystalline solid dissolves readily in water. Its aqueous solution gives a deep-blue precipitate with , and a white precipitate with that is insoluble in dilute . On warming with , liberates a gas that turns moist red litmus blue and gives a brown colour with Nessler's reagent. is a double salt (Mohr's salt type) of molar mass containing six molecules of water of crystallisation. A fresh solution of is mixed with a little solution, and concentrated is poured slowly down the side of the test tube, producing a brown ring of the complex , written , in which nitric oxide is bound as .
Question 1
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In an experiment, of is dissolved in dilute and titrated with . The volume of the permanganate solution needed to reach the end point is
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Answer: (C)
The observations identify as Mohr's salt, : the deep-blue precipitate with ferricyanide shows , the barium test shows sulphate, and the gas liberated with is . In acid, . The amount of is mol (one per formula unit). The amount of permanganate required is mol, and the volume is L mL. The mL option forgets the stoichiometric factor , the mL option divides twice, and mL uses a ratio.
Question 2
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The spin-only magnetic moment of the complex in the brown ring (weak-field water ligands, with treated as described), in Bohr magnetons, is
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Answer: (C)
In the ligand is and the five water molecules are neutral, so the metal oxidation state satisfies , giving . The nitrate is reduced by to , which binds iron; in the process iron is formally reduced to , with electron configuration . The ligand field of (and the weakly interacting nitrosyl in this formalism) is weak enough to keep a high-spin arrangement , with three unpaired electrons. Then BM. The value corresponds to one unpaired electron, to two, and to four.
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