Palladium disulphide

Palladium compounds: palladium disulphide

The palladium in palladium disulphide formally is in the oxidation state 4.

Palladium disulphide

• Formula as often written: PdS₂
• Hill system formula: Pd₁S₂
• CAS registry number: [12137-75-6]
• Formula weight: 170.552
• Class: sulphide

Synonyms

• palladium disulphide
• palladium(IV) sulphide
• palladium disulfide
• palladium sulfide
• palladium sulphide
• palladium(IV) sulfide

Physical properties

• Colour:
• Appearance:
• Melting point: 600°C (decomposes to PdS + sulfur)
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in palladium disulphide

Element	%
Pd	62.40
S	37.60

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of palladium: 4 coordinate: square planar
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the PdS₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Pd₁S₂

mass  %
166   3.5 __
167   0.1 
168  38.8 ___________________
169  77.8 _______________________________________
170  99.1 __________________________________________________
171   8.4 ____
172 100.0 __________________________________________________
173   1.7 _
174  48.9 ________________________
175   0.7 
176   3.8 __
177   0.0 
178   0.1 

References

The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.

• R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
• N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
• F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
• R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
• A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
• J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
• D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
• J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
• J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.

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