St. Phatty
Active member
Cyanide is SO USEFUL for Gold Mining - yet so destructive.
Thinking that there is something "Magic" about the chemical structure - Carbon shares 1 electron with Hydrogen, 3 electrons with Nitrogen - is it possible that a molecule with similar bonds could be used to replace Cyanide ?
Looking at the Periodic Table ...
How about replacing the Carbon in HCN with Silicon ?
Since Silicon is right below Carbon, it would have similar covalent bonds.
Then instead of HCN you would have HSiN.
No, not the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN).
If you do a search for that
There are 2 mentions for it being an "interstellar molecule" but no mentions for it being poisonous.
Or how about replacing Nitrogen with Phosphorus ... H C P
Then you get Methylidynephosphane, "Methylidynephosphane is the phosphorus analogue of hydrogen cyanide, with the nitrile nitrogen replaced by phosphorus."
en.wikipedia.org
Which has had an in-auspicious beginning,
"While the existence of the molecule had been discussed,[4] and early attempts had been made to prepare it, methylidynephosphane was first successfully synthesised in 1961, by T.E. Gier of E. I. duPont de Nemours, Inc.[1][5] Earlier reports of preparing its sodium salt were reported as unreproducible by this author. Methylidynephosphane may have contributed to an explosion that killed Vera Bogdanovskaia, an early chemist pursuing it, one of the first female chemists in Russia,[6] and perhaps the first to die as a result of her own research.[7][8]"
OH WELL. Was going to ask a chemistry professor about this, wanted to look like I had done some preliminary reading.
Or, what if you replace both the Carbon and the Nitrogen, and get H Si P, Hydrogen Silicon Phosphorus ?
Thinking that there is something "Magic" about the chemical structure - Carbon shares 1 electron with Hydrogen, 3 electrons with Nitrogen - is it possible that a molecule with similar bonds could be used to replace Cyanide ?
Looking at the Periodic Table ...
How about replacing the Carbon in HCN with Silicon ?
Since Silicon is right below Carbon, it would have similar covalent bonds.
Then instead of HCN you would have HSiN.
No, not the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN).
If you do a search for that
There are 2 mentions for it being an "interstellar molecule" but no mentions for it being poisonous.
Or how about replacing Nitrogen with Phosphorus ... H C P
Then you get Methylidynephosphane, "Methylidynephosphane is the phosphorus analogue of hydrogen cyanide, with the nitrile nitrogen replaced by phosphorus."
Methylidynephosphane - Wikipedia
Which has had an in-auspicious beginning,
"While the existence of the molecule had been discussed,[4] and early attempts had been made to prepare it, methylidynephosphane was first successfully synthesised in 1961, by T.E. Gier of E. I. duPont de Nemours, Inc.[1][5] Earlier reports of preparing its sodium salt were reported as unreproducible by this author. Methylidynephosphane may have contributed to an explosion that killed Vera Bogdanovskaia, an early chemist pursuing it, one of the first female chemists in Russia,[6] and perhaps the first to die as a result of her own research.[7][8]"
OH WELL. Was going to ask a chemistry professor about this, wanted to look like I had done some preliminary reading.
Or, what if you replace both the Carbon and the Nitrogen, and get H Si P, Hydrogen Silicon Phosphorus ?
