Ruthenium 44 Ru 101.07(2)   Switch element to... actinium aluminium aluminum americium antimony argon arsenic astatine barium berkelium beryllium bismuth bohrium boron bromine cadmium caesium calcium californium carbon cerium cesium chlorine chromium cobalt copper curium darmstadtium dubnium dysprosium einsteinium erbium europium fermium fluorine francium gadolinium gallium germanium gold hafnium hassium helium holmium hydrogen indium iodine iridium iron krypton lanthanum lawrencium lead lithium lutetium magnesium manganese meitnerium mendelevium mercury molybdenum neodymium neon neptunium nickel niobium nitrogen nobelium osmium oxygen palladium phosphorus platinum plutonium polonium potassium praseodymium promethium protactinium radium radon rhenium rhodium roentgenium rubidium ruthenium rutherfordium samarium scandium seaborgium selenium silicon silver sodium strontium sulfur sulphur tantalum technetium tellurium terbium thallium thorium thulium tin titanium tungsten ununbium ununhexium ununoctium ununpentium ununquadium ununtrium uranium vanadium xenon ytterbium yttrium zinc zirconium Go adjacent... Mn Fe Co Tc Ru Rh Re Os Ir

Compounds of ruthenium:

ruthenium (III) chloride

• Formula as commonly written: RuCl₃
• Hill system formula: Cl₃Ru₁
• CAS registry number: [10049-08-8]
• Formula weight: 207.428
• Class: chloride

Synonyms

• ruthenium (III) chloride
• ruthenium chloride
• ruthenium chloride (hexagonal)
• ruthenium trichloride

Physical properties

• Colour: black (alpha form); dark-brown (beta form)
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: >500°C (decomposes)
• Boiling point:
• Density: 3100 kg m^-3

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Element analysis and oxidation numbers

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of ruthenium:
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the RuCl₃ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Ru₁Cl₃

mass  %
201  10.4 _____
202   0.0 
203  13.6 _______
204  24.0 ____________
205  30.4 _______________
206  55.1 ____________________________
207  84.0 __________________________________________
208  38.2 ___________________
209 100.0 __________________________________________________
210  10.6 _____
211  53.0 __________________________
212   1.0 
213  12.8 ______
214   0.0 
215   1.2 _

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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