Advances in INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND RADIOCHEMISTRY Volume 28 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME R. Bohra G. A. Brinkman N. M. N. Gowda A. Haas D. E. Hobart John H. Holloway David Laycock Jack Martin Miller S. B. Naikar J. R. Peterson G. K. N. Reddy H. W. Roesky Ralf Steudel Eva-Maria Strauss Advances in INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND RADIOCHEMISTRY ED7TO RS H. J. EMELEUS A. G. SHARPE University Chemical Laboratory Cambridge, England VOLUME 28 1984 ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers) Orlando San Diego New York London Toronto Montreal Sydney Tokyo COPYRIGHT @ 1984, BY ACADEMIC PRESS,INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL, INCLUDING PHOTOCOPY, RECORDING, OR ANY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBUSHER. ACADEMIC PRESS,INC. Orlando, Florida 32887 United Kingdom Edition prtblished by ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. ( L O N D O N ) LTD. 24/28 Oval Road, London N W l IDX LIBIURYOF CONGRESS CATALOO CARD NUMBER:59-7692 I SBN 0- 12-023628- 1 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 84 85 86 87 9 8765 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS. . . . . . ix Fast-Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometry and Related Techniques JACK MARTINMILLER I. I1. I11. IV . V. VI . VII . VIII . IX . Introduction . . . . . . . . The Fast-Atom Bombardment Method . . . Applications to Organometallic Compounds . . Applications to Coordination Compounds . . Applications to Other Inorganic Systems . . Applications of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry . Applications of Other Related Techniques . . Summary . . . . . . . . . Addendum . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 7 13 17 19 21 22 22 22 The Chemistry of Berkelium J . R . PETERSON AND D . E . HOBART I. I1. I11. IV . V. VI . VII . VIII . Introduction . . . . Nuclear Properties. Availability. and Applications . . . . Separation and Purification . . . . . Atomic Properties . . . Metallic State . . . . . . . . . . . . Compounds . . . . . Solution Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 30 32 34 41 47 55 63 64 Preparations and Reactions of Oxide Fluorides of the Transition Metals. the Lanthanides. and the Actinides JOHNH. HOLLOWAY AND DAVID LAYCOCK I. Introduction . . . . . . . I1. The Oxide Fluorides of the Transition Metals V . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 74 vi CONTENTS I11. The Oxide Fluorides of the Lanthanide Elements . IV . The Oxide Fluorides of the Actinide Elements . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 86 91 Chemical Effects of Nuclear Transformations G. A . BRINKMAN I. I1. 111. IV . Introduction . . . . . . Reactions of Thermalized Recoil Atoms . Stereochemistry in Substitution Reactions Muonium Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . References