Gold(III) fluoride, AuF3, is an orange solid that sublimes at 300 °C. It is a powerful fluorinating agent. It is very sensitive to moisture, yielding gold(III) hydroxide and hydrofluoric acid.
Preparation
AuF3 can be prepared by reacting AuCl3 with F2 or BrF3.2
Structure
The crystal structure of AuF3 consists of spirals of square-planar AuF4 units.3
| AuF3 unit cell | neighbouring (AuF3)n helices | distorted octahedral coordination of gold by six fluorines | top-down view of an (AuF3)n helix | side view of an (AuF3)n helix |
External links
- Media related to Gold trifluoride at Wikimedia Commons
References
Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8., p. 1184. 978-0-08-037941-8 ↩
Inis C. Tornieporth-Oetting; Thomas M. Klapötke (1995). "Laboratory Scale Direct Synthesis of Pure AuF3". Chemische Berichte. 128 (9): 957–958. doi:10.1002/cber.19951280918. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩
F. W. B. Einstein; P. R. Rao; James Trotter; Neil Bartlett (1967). "The crystal structure of gold trifluoride". Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical. 4: 478–482. doi:10.1039/J19670000478. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩