Palladium(II,IV) fluoride, also known as palladium trifluoride, is a chemical compound of palladium and fluorine. It has the empirical formula PdF3, but is better described as the mixed-valence compound palladium(II) hexafluoropalladate(IV), PdII[PdIVF6], and is often written as Pd[PdF6] or Pd2F6.[1][2]
Pd[PdF6] is the most stable product of the reaction of fluorine and metallic palladium.[1]
2 Pd + 3 F2 → Pd[PdF6]
Structure and properties
Pd[PdF6] is paramagnetic, and both Pd(II) and Pd(IV) occupy octahedral sites in the crystal structure.[2][3] The PdII-F distance is 2.17 Å, whereas the PdIV-F distance is 1.90 Å.[4]
Coordination environments of PdII and PdIV, showing different distances to F atoms
↑ 2.02.1Housecroft, C. E.; Sharpe, A. G. (2008). Inorganic Chemistry (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. p. 788. ISBN978-0-13-175553-6.
↑Hepworth, M. A.; Jack, K. H.; Peacock, R. D.; Westland, G. J. (1957). "The crystal structures of the trifluorides of iron, cobalt, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium and iridium". Acta Crystallogr.10: 63–69. doi:10.1107/S0365110X57000158.