Talk:Iron pentacarbonyl
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What is the problem with water exactly, this chemical is immiscible with it. Whilst searching for the unexpected reaction I came across many results regarding the water gas shift reaction and evolution of hydrogen gas. I briefly listed this as a hazard but have since removed it, as it turns out this requires "high temperature." However, it would seem "high temperature" is relative and only refers to the current infeasibility of using this as an effective means of industrial hydrogen production. Instead, the rxn seems a very real possibility under lab conditions. Thoughts anyone? --Belg4mit 08:20, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
- There is no "problem with water" - iron carbonyl is just not very soluble in it. The use of iron carbonyl in water gas shift is long known but mainly only of interest to academics. It is kind of hard to out-do steam reforming. The CO in iron carbonyl is generated from hydrocarbons anyway. It is an interesting cmpd. One thing missing is any discussion of its discovery by Ludwig Mond.--Smokefoot 13:36, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
