Scheibe B, Karttunen AJ, Weigend F, Kraus F. Photochemistry with Chlorine Trifluoride: Syntheses and Characterization of Difluorooxychloronium(V) Hexafluorido(non)metallates(V), [ClOF
2 ][MF
6 ] (M=V, Nb, Ta, Ru, Os, Ir, P, Sb).
Chemistry 2021;
27:2381-2392. [PMID:
32897578 PMCID:
PMC7898883 DOI:
10.1002/chem.202003629]
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Abstract
A photochemical route to salts consisting of difluorooxychloronium(V) cations, [ClOF2 ]+ , and hexafluorido(non)metallate(V) anions, [MF6 ]- (M=V, Nb, Ta, Ru, Os, Ir, P, Sb) is presented. As starting materials, either metals, oxygen and ClF3 or oxides and ClF3 are used. The prepared compounds were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The crystal structures of [ClOF2 ][MF6 ] (M=V, Ru, Os, Ir, P, Sb) are layer structures that are isotypic with the previously reported compound [ClOF2 ][AsF6 ], whereas for M=Nb and Ta, similar crystal structures with a different stacking variant of the layers are observed. Additionally, partial or full O/F disorder within the [ClOF2 ]+ cations of the Nb and Ta compounds occurs. In all compounds reported here, a trigonal pyramidal [ClOF2 ]+ cation with three additional Cl⋅⋅⋅F contacts to neighboring [MF6 ]- anions is observed, resulting in a pseudo-octahedral coordination sphere around the Cl atom. The Cl-F and Cl-O bond lengths of the [ClOF2 ]+ cations seem to correlate with the effective ionic radii of the MV ions. Quantum-chemical, solid-state calculations well reproduce the experimental Raman spectra and show, as do quantum-chemical gas phase calculations, that the secondary Cl⋅⋅⋅F interactions are ionic in nature. However, both solid-state and gas-phase quantum-chemical calculations fail to reproduce the increases in the Cl-O bond lengths with increasing effective ionic radius of M in [MF6 ]- and the Cl-O Raman shifts also do not generally follow this trend.
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