Osmium pentafluoride is an
inorganic compound with the formula OsF
5. It is a blue-green solid. Like the pentafluorides of Ru, Rh, and Ir, OsF
5 exists as a tetramer in the solid state.
Preparation
Osmium pentafluoride can be prepared by reduction of
osmium hexafluoride with
iodine as a solution in
iodine pentafluoride
Iodine pentafluoride is an interhalogen compound with chemical formula IF5. It is one of the fluorides of iodine. It is a colorless liquid, although impure samples appear yellow. It is used as a fluorination reagent and even a solvent in special ...
:
:10 OsF
6 + I
2 → 10 OsF
5 + 2 IF
5
References
{{fluorine compounds
Osmium compounds
Fluorides
Platinum group halides