Tag: group 17 elements - trends in chemical properties

Tokyo, the city first reported a spike of radioactive iodine in its water supply on March 23, 2011 at levels below the limit for adults but above the threshold of safety for infants; since then, iodine levels in Tokyo's water have declined below both thresholds. 

Dioxygenyl hexafluoroplatinate $(O _2^+[PtF _6]^-)$ is a orange coloured salt. It is a solid and is used to prepare co-ordination complexes.

Catenation,  chemical linkage into chains of atoms of the same element, occurring only among the atoms of an element that has a valence of at least two and that forms relatively strong bonds with itself. The property is predominant among carbon atoms, significant among sulfur and silicon atoms, and slightly present among germanium, nitrogen, selenium, and tellurium atoms.
here, apart from iodine all other have this property.

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase without passing through the intermediate liquid phase..
At room temperature, fluorine and chlorine are gases, bromine is liquid, and iodine is solid. They form diatomic molecules in the pure state. Since, $I _2$ is solid at room temperature. It will be sublimated and remaining can not be sublimated
Hence, options D is correct.

Bond dissociation energy decrease
down the group
But bonds dissociation energy of 
$F _2$ is less than excepted due to 
large repulsion of $e^-$ in $F _2$

There are two factors that determine the reactivity of the halogenation of alkanes.
1. Lesser the positive value of $E _{act}$ of the first chain propagating step, more reactive is the halogen.
2. Higher the negative value of overall heat of reaction $(\Delta H _{\zeta}^{})$ more reactive is the halogen. This explains high reactivity and explosive violence with which $F _2$ reacts with $CH _4$.

Iodine reacts with starch to produce a blue/black color.

Base is an electron pair donor. The more available the electrons, the more readily they can be donated to form a new bond to the proton and, and therefore the stronger base. When comparing atoms within the same group of the periodic table, the larger the atom the weaker the H-X bond and the lower the electron density making it a weaker base.

Iodine's main role in animal biology is as constituents of the thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). These are made from addition condensation products of the amino acid tyrosine, and are stored prior to release in an iodine-containing protein called thyroglobulin. T4 and T3 contain four and three atoms of iodine per molecule, respectively. The thyroid gland actively absorbs iodine from the blood to make and release these hormones into the blood, actions which are regulated by a second hormone TSH from the pituitary. Thyroid hormones are phylogenetically very old molecules which are synthesized by most multicellular organisms, and which even have some effect on unicellular organisms.