Platinum tetrafluoride

Platinum tetrafluoride
Names
IUPAC name
platinum(IV) fluoride
Identifiers
13455-15-7
PubChem 139460
Properties
F4Pt
Molar mass 271.078[1]
Appearance red-orange solid[1]
Density 7.08 g/cm3 (calc.)[2]
Melting point 600 °C (1,112 °F; 873 K)[1]
Structure
Orthorombic, oF40
Fdd2, No. 43[2]
a = 0.9284 nm, b = 0.959 nm, c = 0.5712 nm
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Infobox references

Platinum tetrafluoride is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula PtF
4. In the solid state, the compound features platinum(IV) in octahedral coordination geometry.[2]

Preparation

The compound was first reported by Henri Moissan by the fluorination of platinum metal in the presence of hydrogen fluoride.[3] A modern synthesis involves thermal decomposition of platinum hexafluoride.[4]

Properties

Platinum tetrafluoride vapour at 298.15 K consists of individual molecules. The enthalpy of sublimation is 210 kJmol−1.[5] Original analysis of powdered PtF4 suggested a tetrahedral molecular geometry, but later analysis by several methods identified it as octahedral, with four of the six fluorines on each platinum bridging to adjacent platinum centres.[6]

Reactions

A solution of platinum tetrafluoride in water is coloured reddish brown, but it rapidly decomposes, releasing heat and forming an orange coloured platinum dioxide hydrate precipitate and fluoroplatinic acid.[7] When heated to a red hot temperature platinum tetrafluoride decomposes to platinum metal and fluorine gas. When heated in contact with glass, silicon tetrafluoride gas is produced along with the metal.[7]

Platinum tetrafluoride can form adducts with selenium tetrafluoride and bromine trifluoride.[7] Volatile crystalline adducts are also formed in combination with BF3, PF3, BCl3, and PCl3.[7]

Related compounds

The fluoroplatinates are salts containing the PtF62− ion. Fluoroplatinic acid H2PtF6 forms yellow crystals, that absorb water from the air. Ammonium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and rare earth including lanthanum fluoropalatinate salts are soluble in water.[7] potassium, rubidium, caesium, and barium salts are insoluble in water.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Haynes, William M., ed. (2011). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (92nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 4.81. ISBN 1439855110.
  2. 1 2 3 Mueller, B. G.; Serafin, M. (1992). "Single-crystal investigations on PtF4 and PtF5". European Journal of Solid State Inorganic Chemistry 29: 625–633. doi:10.1002/chin.199245006.
  3. ↑ Moissan, H. "Platinum tetrafluoride". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 109: 807–9.
  4. ↑ Slivnik, J. E.; Z̆emva, B.; Druz̆ina, B. (1980). "New syntheses of platinum (IV) and platinum (VI) fluorides". Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 15 (4): 351. doi:10.1016/S0022-1139(00)81471-2.
  5. ↑ Bondarenko, A.A; Korobov, M.V; Mitkin, V.N; Sidorov, L.N (March 1988). "Enthalpy of sublimation of platinum tetrafluoride". The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 20 (3): 299–303. doi:10.1016/0021-9614(88)90125-5.
  6. ↑ "Solid State Structures of the Binary Fluorides of the Transition Metals". Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry 27. Academic Press. 1983. Section V: Tetrafluorides, pages 97–103. ISBN 9780080578767.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Derek Harry Lohmann (October 1961). The fluorides of platinum and related compounds (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
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