Palladium tetracarbonyl

Palladium compounds: palladium tetracarbonyl

The palladium in palladium tetracarbonyl formally is in the oxidation state 0.

Palladium tetracarbonyl

• Formula as often written: Pd(CO)₄
• Hill system formula: C₄O₄Pd₁
• CAS registry number: [36344-80-6]
• Formula weight: 218.46
• Class: carbonyl complex organometallic

Synonyms

• palladium tetracarbonyl
• palladium(O) carbonyl
• palladium carbonyl

Physical properties

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in palladium tetracarbonyl

Element	%
C	21.99
O	29.29
Pd	48.71

Synthesis

Obtained only in matrix

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the Pd(CO)₄ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Pd₁C₄O₄

mass  %
214   3.6 __
215   0.2 
216  39.2 ____________________
217  80.3 ________________________________________
218 100.0 __________________________________________________
219   5.1 ___
220  93.9 _______________________________________________
221   4.3 __
222  42.0 _____________________
223   1.9 _
224   0.4 
225   0.0 

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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