Teruo Takahashi
Oct 25, 1979
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Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Abstract
Mercurated pyridine-3-carboxylic anhydride (III), obtained by the reaction of pyridine-2, 3-dicarboxylic acid with mercuric oxide, showed a carbonyl absorption in the IR spectrum at extremely low wave number, indicating that the oxygen-mercury bond is ionic in nature, and thus that compound (III) takes an ionic structure (III'). The carbon bonded with mercury is reactive with nucleophilic reagents (SH-, CN-, I-), as would be expected.