Osmium octafluoride

Osmium compounds: osmium octafluoride

The osmium in osmium octafluoride formally is in the oxidation state 8.

Osmium octafluoride

• Formula as often written: OsF₈
• Hill system formula: F₈Os₁
• CAS registry number: [18432-81-0]
• Formula weight: 342.217
• Class: fluoride

Synonyms

• osmium octafluoride
• osmium(VIII) fluoride
• osmium fluoride

Physical properties

• Colour:
• Appearance:
• Melting point:
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis

Synthesis

This may be erroneously assigned as OsF₈ when it should be OsF₆. See http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=4290427

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the OsF₈ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Os₁F₈

mass  %
336   0.0 
337   0.0 
338   3.9 __
339   3.9 __
340  32.4 ________________
341  39.3 ____________________
342  64.4 ________________________________
343   0.0 
344 100.0 __________________________________________________

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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