A Possible Acid-Dissociation of Metal-Ammonia Ions, and its Bearing on Certain Reactions

Abstract

MR. GARRICK has very courteously allowed us to see the foregoing letter before publication, and indeed suggested that he would publish it only with our concurrence. This encourages us to give the following brief outline of certain results we have obtained during the last few months in our study of the rate of interchange between hexammine cobaltic chloride and heavy water, which have led us to precisely the same view of the basic reaction as that at which Mr. Garrick has independently arrived.