Chlorine pentafluoride has formula ClF5. It was first synthesized in 1963.
Its square pyramidal structure with C4v symmetry was confirmed by its high resolutionF NMR spectrum.
Initially, a common method for synthesis of this hypervalent molecule was to react ClF3 with F2 at high temperatures and high pressures. Also, reacting metal fluorides, MClF4 (i.e. KClF4, RbClF4, CsClF4) with F2 produced ClF5 and the corresponding MF. In 1981, researchers f...
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