Bismuthyl

Bismuthyl means a chemical species formally derived from the element bismuth and can refer to substituents bonded to the rest of a molecule through a bismuth atom, including:

  • derivatives of bismuthanes, BiR3, such as the diphenylbismuthyl group, Ph2Bi–, found in the ion [Ph2Bi−(Ge9)−BiPh2]2−
  • trivalent bismuth species when considered as ligands, such as the tribromobismuthyl ligand, Br3Bi→


In inorganic chemistry bismuthyl has been used to describe compounds such as BiOCl which were assumed to contain the diatomic bismuthyl, BiO+, cation, that was also presumed to exist in aqueous solution.[1] This diatomic ion is not now believed to exist.[2]

References
  1. Godfrey, S. M.; McAuliffe, C. A.; Mackie, A. G.; Pritchard, R. G. (1998). Nicholas C. Norman (ed.). Chemistry of arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. Springer. pp. 67–84. ISBN 0-7514-0389-X.
  2. Wiberg, Egon; Holleman, A. F.; Wiberg, Nils (2001). Inorganic chemistry. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-352651-5.
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