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Chlorine pentafluoride is an interhalogen compound with formula ClF 5. This colourless gas is a strong oxidant that was once a candidate oxidizer for rockets. The molecule adopts a square pyramidal structure with C 4v symmetry, [1] as confirmed by its high-resolution 19 F NMR spectrum. [2] It was first synthesized in 1963. [3]
Unlike other hydrohalic acids, such as hydrochloric acid, hydrogen fluoride is only a weak acid in water solution, with acid dissociation constant (pK a) equal to 3.19. [36] HF's weakness as an aqueous acid is paradoxical considering how polar the HF bond is, much more so than the bond in HCl, HBr, or HI. The explanation for the behavior is ...
[1] [2] [3] Introduced by Gilbert N. Lewis in his 1916 article The Atom and the Molecule, a Lewis structure can be drawn for any covalently bonded molecule, as well as coordination compounds. [4] Lewis structures extend the concept of the electron dot diagram by adding lines between atoms to represent shared pairs in a chemical bond.
Hypervalent iodine compounds are useful reagents in organic chemistry (e.g. Dess–Martin periodinane) Tetra-, penta- and hexavalent phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur compounds (e.g. PCl 5, PF 5, SF 6, sulfuranes and persulfuranes) Noble gas compounds (ex. xenon tetrafluoride, XeF 4) Halogen polyfluorides (ex. chlorine pentafluoride, ClF 5)
ClO 2 F was first reported by Schmitz and Schumacher in 1942, who prepared it by the fluorination of ClO 2. [2] The compound is more conveniently prepared by reaction of sodium chlorate and chlorine trifluoride [3] and purified by vacuum fractionation, i.e. selectively condensing this species separately from other products.
The hydrogen fluoride, HF, molecule is polar by virtue of polar covalent bonds – in the covalent bond electrons are displaced toward the more electronegative fluorine atom. The ammonia molecule, NH 3, is polar as a result of its molecular geometry. The red represents partially negatively charged regions.
Antimony pentafluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula Sb F 5. This colourless, viscous liquid is a strong Lewis acid and a component of the superacid fluoroantimonic acid, formed upon mixing liquid HF with liquid SbF 5 in 1:1 ratio. It is notable for its strong Lewis acidity and the ability to react with almost all known compounds. [4]
Fluoroantimonic acid is a mixture of hydrogen fluoride and antimony pentafluoride, containing various cations and anions (the simplest being H 2 F + and Sb F − 6).This mixture is a superacid that, in terms of corrosiveness, is trillions of times stronger than pure sulfuric acid when measured by its Hammett acidity function.