Ruthenium_pentafluoride

Ruthenium pentafluoride

Ruthenium pentafluoride

Chemical compound

Ruthenium pentafluoride is the inorganic compound with the empirical formula RuF5. This green volatile solid has rarely been studied but is of interest as a binary fluoride of ruthenium, i.e. a compound containing only Ru and F. It is sensitive toward hydrolysis. Its structure consists of Ru4F20 tetramers, as seen in the isostructural platinum pentafluoride. Within the tetramers, each Ru adopts octahedral molecular geometry, with two bridging fluoride ligands.[1]

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Ruthenium pentafluoride reacts with iodine to give ruthenium(III) fluoride.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    J. H. Holloway, R. D. Peacock, R. W. H. Small "The crystal structure of ruthenium pentafluoride" J. Chem. Soc., 1964, 644-648. doi:10.1039/JR9640000644
  2. [2]
    A. F. Holleman (2019), Lehrbuch der anorganischen Chemie (in German), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, p. 1418, ISBN 978-3-11-083817-6
  3. [3]
    E.A. Seddon, K.R. Seddon (2013), The Chemistry of Ruthenium (in German), Elsevier, p. 155, ISBN 978-1-4832-8990-8


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