Osmium trichloride

Osmium compounds: osmium trichloride

The osmium in osmium trichloride formally is in the oxidation state 3.

Osmium trichloride

• Formula as often written: OsCl₃
• Hill system formula: Cl₃Os₁
• CAS registry number: [13444-93-4]
• Formula weight: 296.588
• Class: chloride

Synonyms

• osmium trichloride
• osmium(III) chloride
• osmium chloride

Physical properties

• Colour: dark-grey
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 450°C (decomposes)
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in osmium trichloride

Element	%
Cl	35.86
Os	64.14

Synthesis

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Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the OsCl₃ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Os₁Cl₃

mass  %
289   0.0 
290   0.0 
291   2.3 _
292   2.3 _
293  21.0 __________
294  25.0 ____________
295  56.3 ____________________________
296  22.6 ___________
297 100.0 __________________________________________________
298   7.1 ____
299  67.9 __________________________________
300   0.7 
301  19.1 __________
302   0.0 
303   1.9 _

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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