Palladium dichloride

Palladium compounds: palladium dichloride

The palladium in palladium dichloride formally is in the oxidation state 2.

Palladium dichloride

• Formula as often written: PdCl₂
• Hill system formula: Cl₂Pd₁
• CAS registry number: [7647-10-1]
• Formula weight: 177.325
• Class: chloride

Synonyms

• palladium dichloride
• palladium(II) chloride
• palladium chloride
• palladium chloride (alpha form)

Physical properties

• Colour: dark red
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 675°C (decomposes)
• Boiling point:
• Density: 4000 kg m^-3

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in palladium dichloride

Element	%
Cl	39.99
Pd	60.01

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 PdCl₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Pd₁Cl₂

mass  %
172   2.3 _
173   0.0 
174  26.2 _____________
175  49.5 _________________________
176  76.7 ______________________________________
177  31.7 ________________
178 100.0 __________________________________________________
179   5.1 ___
180  69.7 ___________________________________
181   0.0 
182  22.6 ___________
183   0.0 
184   2.7 _

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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