Californium compounds
Few
The +3 oxidation state is represented by californium(III) oxide (yellow-green, Cf2O3), californium(III) fluoride (bright green, CfF3) and californium(III) iodide (lemon yellow, CfI3).[3] Other +3 oxidation states include the sulfide and metallocene.[6] Californium(IV) oxide (black brown, CfO2), californium(IV) fluoride (green, CfF4) represent the IV oxidation state. The II state is represented by californium(II) bromide (yellow, CfBr2) and californium(II) iodide (dark violet, CfI2).[3]
Compounds
Californium(IV) oxide (CfO2) is a black-brown solid that has a cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter, the distance between unit cells in the crystal, of 531.0 ± 0.2 pm.[7] Crystals of californium(III) oxide normally have a body-centered cubic symmetry. They convert to a monoclinic form upon heating to about 1400 °C and melt at 1750 °C.[7]
Californium(III) chloride (CfCl3) is an emerald green compound with a hexagonal structure that can be prepared by reacting Cf2O3 with hydrochloric acid at 500 °C.[8] CfCl3 is then used as a feeder stock to form the yellow-orange triiodide CfI3, which in turn can be reduced to the lavender-violet diiodide CfI2.[9]
Californium(II) iodide (CfI2) is a deep purple solid with a stable rhombohedral structure at room temperature and an unstable hexagonal structure. Californium(III) iodide (CfI3) is a lemon-yellow solid that has a rhombohedral structure and sublimes at ~800 °C.[12]
Californium(III) oxyfluoride (CfOF) is prepared by hydrolysis of californium(III) fluoride (CfF3) at high temperature.[13] Californium(III) oxychloride (CfOCl) is prepared by hydrolysis of the hydrate of californium(III) chloride at 280–320 °C.[14]
Heating the sulfate in air at about 1200 °C and then reducing with hydrogen at 500 °C produces the sesquioxide (Cf2O3).[8] The hydroxide Cf(OH)3 and the trifluoride CfF3 are slightly soluble.[8]
Californium(III) polyborate is unusual in that californium is covalently bound to the borate.[16]
Tris(cyclopentadienyl)californium(III) (Cp3Cf) presents itself as ruby red crystals. This cyclopentadienyl complex has been prepared by the reaction between Cp2Be and CfCl3 on a microgram scale and characterized by X-ray crystallography.[17] Californium is the second-heaviest element for which an organometallic compound is known. A bent californium metallocene has also been isolated and characterized.[18]
See also
- Californium
- Compounds of berkelium
- Einsteinium compounds
References
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