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Prussian Blue and Its Analogues. Structure, Characterization and Applications

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Prussian Blue is a mixed-valence polynuclear transition metal cyanide complex (Samain et al. in J Phys Chem C 117:9693–9712, 2013, [1]), (Ludi in Descriptive chemistry of mixed-valence compounds. Springer, Dordrecht, 1980, [2]) and it can be considered the first synthetic coordination compound (Davies et al. in Synthetic coordination chemistry: principles and practice. World Scientific, Singapore, 1996, [3]). The discovery of Prussian Blue dates back to early eighteenth century, around 1704. Its invention has been attributed to a colour manufacturer from Berlin named Diesbach, who apparently obtained the blue compound accidentally when he was preparing another pigment (Stahl in Experimenta, observations, animad-versiones, CCC numero, chymicae et physicae. Berlin, 1731, [4]).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Another accepted nomenclature for the hexacyanoferrate (II) fragment, [Fe(CN)6], is “ferrocyanide”.

  2. 2.

    Please, note that the oxidation states of the irons are indicated in all the equations of the present chapter for further clarification.

  3. 3.

    [Fe(CN)6]4- vacancies are commonly represented as □.

  4. 4.

    Another accepted terminology for hexacyanoferrate (III) is ferricyanide. For example, K3[Fe(CN)6] is referred as potassium ferricyanide.

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Piernas Muñoz, M., Castillo Martínez, E. (2018). Prussian Blue and Its Analogues. Structure, Characterization and Applications. In: Prussian Blue Based Batteries. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91488-6_2

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