Platinum dichloride

Platinum compounds: platinum dichloride

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

Platinum dichloride

• Formula as often written: Pt₆Cl₁₂
• Hill system formula: Cl₁₂Pt₆
• CAS registry number: [10025-65-7]
• Formula weight: 1595.9
• Class: chloride

Synonyms

• platinum dichloride
• platinum(II) chloride
• platinum chloride (beta form)
• platinum dichloride

Physical properties

• Colour: olive green
• Appearance: crystalline solid (alpha form is black-red)
• Melting point: 581°C (decomposes)
• Boiling point:
• Density: 6000 kg m^-3

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in platinum dichloride

Element	%
Cl	26.66
Pt	73.34

Synthesis

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Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the Pt₆Cl₁₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Pt₆Cl₁₂

mass  %
1581   0.0 
1582   0.0 
1583   0.0 
1584   0.2 
1585   0.6 
1586   1.9 _
1587   4.5 __
1588   9.5 _____
1589  17.5 _________
1590  29.0 ______________
1591  43.4 ______________________
1592  59.5 ______________________________
1593  75.2 ______________________________________
1594  88.4 ____________________________________________
1595  96.9 ________________________________________________
1596 100.0 __________________________________________________
1597  97.0 ________________________________________________
1598  89.2 _____________________________________________
1599  77.6 _______________________________________
1600  64.4 ________________________________
1601  50.7 _________________________
1602  38.3 ___________________
1603  27.5 ______________
1604  19.0 __________
1605  12.5 ______
1606   8.0 ____
1607   4.8 __
1608   2.8 _
1609   1.6 _
1610   0.8 
1611   0.4 
1612   0.2 
1613   0.1 
1614   0.0 
1615   0.0 
1616   0.0 
1617   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.
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• 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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