Manganate

Structure

The manganate(VI) ion is tetrahedral, similar to sulfate or chromate: indeed, manganates are often isostructural with sulfates and chromates, a fact first noted by Eilhard Mitscherlich in 1831. The manganese–oxygen distance is 165.9 pm, about 3 pm longer than in permanganate. As a d1 ion, it is paramagnetic, but any Jahn–Teller distortion is too small to be detected by X-ray crystallography. Manganates are dark green in colour, with a visible absorption maximum of λmax = 606 nm (ε = 1710 dm3 mol−1 cm−1). The Raman spectrum has also been reported.

Preparation

Sodium and potassium manganates are usually prepared in the laboratory by stirring the equivalent permanganate in a concentrated solution (5–10 M) of the hydroxide for 24 hours or with heating. : + 4 OH− → + 2 H2O + O2

Potassium manganate is prepared industrially, as an intermediate to potassium permanganate, by dissolving manganese dioxide in molten potassium hydroxide with potassium nitrate or air as the oxidizing agent. :2 MnO2 + 4 OH− + O2 → + 2 H2O

Disproportionation

Manganates are unstable towards disproportionation in all but the most alkaline of aqueous solutions. The ultimate products are permanganate and manganese dioxide, but the kinetics are complex and the mechanism may involve protonated and/or manganese(V) species.

Uses

Manganates, particularly the insoluble barium manganate, BaMnO4, have been used as oxidizing agents in organic synthesis: they will oxidize primary alcohols to aldehydes and then to carboxylic acids, and secondary alcohols to ketones. Barium manganate has also been used to oxidize hydrazones to diazo compounds.

Related compounds

Manganate is formally the conjugate base of hypothetical manganic acid , which cannot be formed because of its rapid disproportionation. However, its second acid dissociation constant has been estimated by pulse radiolysis techniques: :HMnO MnO + H+ pKa = 7.4 ± 0.1

Manganites

The name "manganite" is used for compounds formerly believed to contain the anion , with manganese in the +3 oxidation state. However, most of these "manganites" do not contain discrete oxyanions, but are mixed oxides with perovskite (LaMnIIIO3, CaMnIVO3), spinel (LiMnO4) or sodium chloride (LiMnIIIO2, NaMnIIIO2) structures.

One exception is potassium dimanganate(III), K6Mn2O6, which contains discrete Mn2O anions.

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