Chemistry:Rhenium dioxide trifluoride

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Rhenium dioxide trifluoride
ReO2F3.svg
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
Properties
F3O2Re
Molar mass 275.200 g·mol−1
Appearance white
Density 5.161 g/cm3
Melting point 35 °C; 95 °F; 308 K
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Infobox references

Rhenium dioxide trfluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula ReO
2
F
3
. A white diamagnetic solid, it one of the few oxyfluorides of rhenium, another being rhenium trioxide fluoride, ReO
3
F
. The material is of some academic interest as a rare example of an dioxide trifluoride.[1] It can be prepared by the reaction of xenon difluoride and rhenium trioxide chloride:

2 ReO
3
Cl + 3 XeF
2
→ 2 ReO
2
F
3
+ O
2
+ Cl
2
+ 3 Xe

According to X-ray crystallography, the compound can exist in four polymorphs. Two polymorphs adopt chain-like structures featuring octahedral Re centers linked by [bridging bridging fluoride]]s. Two other polymorphs adopt cyclic structures (ReO
2
F
3
)
3
and (ReO
2
F
3
)
4
, again featuring octahedral Re centers and bridging fluorides. Like related oxyfluorides, these coordination oligomers break up in the presence of Lewis bases. Adducts of the formula ReO
2
F
3
L
where L = acetonitrile have been crystallized.[2]

References

  1. Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8. 
  2. Supeł, Joanna; Marx, Rupert; Seppelt, Konrad (2005). "Preparation and Structure of Rhenium Fluoride Trioxide ReO3F, and the Polymorphism of Rhenium Trifluoride Dioxide, ReO2F3". Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 631 (15): 2979–2986. doi:10.1002/zaac.200500239.