W&M ScholarWorks Arts & Sciences Articles Arts and Sciences 2016 Alkali metal bismuth(III) chloride double salts Andrew W. Kelly College of William and Mary, Dept Chem, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA Robert D. Pike College of William and Mary, Dept Chem, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA Aaron Nicholas Univ Maine, Dept Chem, Orono, ME 04469 USA; John C. Ahern Univ Maine, Dept Chem, Orono, ME 04469 USA; Howard H. Patterson Univ Maine, Dept Chem, Orono, ME 04469 USA; Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/aspubs Recommended Citation Kelly, A. W., Nicholas, A., Ahern, J. C., Chan, B., Patterson, H. H., & Pike, R. D. (2016). Alkali metal bismuth (III) chloride double salts. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 670, 337-345. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arts & Sciences Articles by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Alkali Metal Bismuth(III) Chloride Double Salts Andrew W. Kelly,a Aaron Nicholas,b John C. Ahern,b Benny Chan,c Howard H. Patterson,b and Robert D. Pikea* aDepartment of Chemistry, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187. bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. cDepartment of Chemistry, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718. Corresponding Author: Robert D. Pike Department of Chemistry College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. telephone: 757-221-2555 FAX: 757-221-2715 email: rdpike@ wm.edu 1 © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the Elsevier user license http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ Abstract: Evaporative co-crystallization of MCl (M = Na, K, Rb, Cs) with BiOCl in aqueous HCl produces double salts: MxBiyCl(x+3y)•zH2O.