Rhenium pentachloride
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IUPAC name
Rhenium pentachloride
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Other names
Rhenium(V) chloride, Rhenium chloride, pentachlororhenium
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ReCl5 | |
Molar mass | 363.471 g/mol |
Appearance | red-brown |
Density | 4.9 g/cm3, solid |
Melting point | 220 °C (428 °F; 493 K) |
Boiling point | N/A |
Will react to decompose and release HCl (g) | |
+1225.0·10−6 cm3/mol | |
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Octahedral | |
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Main hazards
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releases HCl upon hydrolysis |
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H315, H319, H335 | |
P261, P264, P271, P280, P302+P352, P304+P340, P305+P351+P338, P312, P321, P332+P313, P337+P313, P362, P403+P233, P405, P501 | |
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Safety data sheet (SDS) | MSDS |
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Other anions
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Rhenium hexafluoride |
Related compounds
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Trirhenium nonachloride, rhenium tetrachloride, rhenium hexachloride |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Rhenium pentachloride is an inorganic compound of chlorine and rhenium. The compound has the formula Re2Cl10 but it is usually referred to as rhenium pentachloride. It is a red-brown solid.
Structure and preparation
Rhenium pentachloride has a bioctahedral structure and can be formulated as Cl4Re(μ-Cl)2ReCl4. The Re-Re distance is 3.74 Å.
This compound was first prepared in 1933,
ReCl5 is one of the most oxidized binary chlorides of Re. It does not undergo further chlorination. ReCl6 has been prepared from rhenium hexafluoride.[5] Rhenium heptafluoride is known but not the heptachloride.[6]
Uses and reactions
It degrades in air to a brown liquid.[7]
Although rhenium pentachloride has no commercial applications, it is of historic significance as one of the early catalysts for olefin metathesis.[8] Reduction gives trirhenium nonachloride.
Oxygenation affords the Re(VII) oxychloride:[9]
- ReCl5 + 3 Cl2O → ReO3Cl + 5 Cl2
Comproportionation of the penta- and trichloride gives rhenium tetrachloride.
References
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- ^ Ring-opening polymerization of endo and exo-dicyclopentadiene and their 7,8-dihydro derivatives, Hamilton, J.G.; Ivin, K.J.; Rooney, J.J. Journal of Molecular Catalysis 1986 , 36, 115.
- ISBN 978-0-13-039913-7.