- Tellurium tetrafluoride
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IUPACName = tellurium(IV) fluoride
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Formula = TeF4
MolarMass = 203.594
Appearance = white crystalline solid
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MeltingPt = 130 °C
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Autoignition =Tellurium tetrafluoride, TeF4, is a stable, white, hygroscopic crystalline solid and is one of two fluorides of
tellurium . The other binary fluoride istellurium hexafluoride "Inorganic Chemistry",Egon Wiberg, Arnold Frederick Holleman Elsevier 2001 ISBN 0123526515] . The widely reported Te2F10 has been shown to be F5TeOTeF5 There are other tellurium compounds that contain fluorine, but only the two mentioned contain solely tellurium and fluorine. Tellurium difluoride, TeF2, and ditellurium fluoride, Te2F are not known.Preparation
Tellurium tetrafluoride can be prepared by the following reaction:
TeO2 + 2SF4 → TeF4 + 2SOF2
It is also prepared by reactingnitryl fluoride with tellurium or from the elements at 0 °C or by reactingselenium tetrafluoride withtellurium dioxide at 80 °C.
Fluorine in nitrogen can react with TeCl2 or TeBr2 to form TeF4. PbF2 will also fluorinate tellurium to TeF4.Reactivity
Tellurium tetrafluoride will react with
water orsilica and forms tellurium oxides.Copper ,silver ,gold ornickel will react with tellurium tetrafluoride at 185 °C. It does not react withplatinum . It is soluble in SbF5 and will precipitate out the complex TeF4SbF5.Properties
Tellurium tetrafluoride melts at 130 °C and decomposes to
tellurium hexafluoride at 194 °C. In the solid phase it consists of infinite chains of TeF3F2/2 in an octahedral geometry. A lone pair of electrons occupies the sixth position.References
*R.B. King; "Inorganic Chemistry of Main Group Elements", VCH Publishers, New York, 1995.
*W.C. Cooper; "Tellurium", VanNostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1971.
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