Pentaammine chloro ruthenium dichloride

Ruthenium compounds: pentaammine chloro ruthenium dichloride

The ruthenium in pentaammine chloro ruthenium dichloride formally is in the oxidation state 3.

Pentaammine chloro ruthenium dichloride

• Formula as often written: [RuCl(NH₃)₅]Cl₂
• Hill system formula: Cl₃H₁₅N₅Ru₁
• CAS registry number: [18532-87-1]
• Formula weight: 292.581
• Class: complex

Synonyms

• pentaammine chloro ruthenium dichloride
• pentaammine chloro ruthenium chloride(III)

Physical properties

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

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in pentaammine chloro ruthenium dichloride

Element	%
Cl	36.35
H	5.17
N	23.94
Ru	34.54

Synthesis

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Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the [RuCl(NH₃)₅]Cl₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Ru₁Cl₃N₅H₁₅

mass  %
286  10.4 _____
287   0.2 
288  13.4 _______
289  24.1 ____________
290  30.7 _______________
291  55.3 ____________________________
292  84.4 __________________________________________
293  39.5 ____________________
294 100.0 __________________________________________________
295  12.6 ______
296  52.8 __________________________
297   2.1 _
298  12.7 ______
299   0.3 
300   1.1 _
301   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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