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Osmium(IV) chloride






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Osmium(IV) chloride
Names
IUPAC name

Osmium(IV) chloride

Other names

Osmium chloride, osmium tetrachloride

Identifiers

CAS Number

3D model (JSmol)

ECHA InfoCard 100.151.226 Edit this at Wikidata

PubChem CID

UNII

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  • InChI=1S/4ClH.Os/h4*1H;/q;;;;+4/p-4

  • Cl[Os](Cl)(Cl)Cl

Properties

Chemical formula

OsCl4
Molar mass 332.041 g/mol
Appearance red-black orthorhombic crystals
Density 4.38 g/cm3
Melting point decomposes at 323°C

Solubility in water

reacts with water
Solubility soluble in hydrochloric acid
Structure

Crystal structure

Orthorhombic, oS10

Space group

Cmmm, No. 65
Related compounds

Other anions

Osmium tetrabromide

Other cations

Iron(III) chloride
Ruthenium(III) chloride
Osmium(III) chloride

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

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Infobox references

Osmium(IV) chlorideorosmium tetrachloride is the inorganic compound composed of osmium and chlorine with the empirical formula OsCl4. It exists in two polymorphs (crystalline forms). The compound is used to prepare other osmium complexes.

Preparation, structure, reactions

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It was first reported in 1909 as the product of chlorination of osmium metal.[1] This route affords the high temperature polymorph:[2]

Os + 2 Cl2 → OsCl4

This reddish-black polymorph is orthorhombic and adopts a structure in which osmium centres are octahedrally coordinated, sharing opposite edges of the OsCl6 octahedra to form a chain.[3] A brown, apparently cubic polymorph forms upon reduction of osmium tetroxide with thionyl chloride:[4]

OsO4 + 2 SOCl2 → OsCl4 + 2 Cl2 + 2 SO2

Osmium tetraoxide dissolves in hydrochloric acid to give the hexachloroosmate anion:

OsO4 + 10 HCl → H2OsCl6 + 2 Cl2 + 4 H2O

References

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  1. ^ Otto Ruff and Ferd. Bornemann (1910). "Über das Osmium, seine analytische Bestimmung, seine Oxyde und seine Chloride". Zeitschrift für anorganische Chemie. 65: 429–456. doi:10.1002/zaac.19100650126.
  • ^ Cotton, S. A. (1997). Chemistry of Precious Metals. London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0-7514-0413-6.
  • ^ Wells A.F. (1984). Structural Inorganic Chemistry (5th ed.). Oxford Science Publications. ISBN 0-19-855370-6.
  • ^ Paul Machmer (1967). "On the polymorphism of osmium tetrachloride". Chem. Commun. (12): 610a. doi:10.1039/C1967000610A.

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