Molar mass 322.97 g/mol | Appearance white solid | |
Polonium hexafluoride (PoF6) is a possible chemical compound of polonium and fluorine and one of the seventeen known binary hexafluorides.
Synthesis
The synthesis of PoF6 via the reaction
210Po + 3 F
2 → 210
PoF
6
was attempted in 1945, but the attempt was unsuccessful. The boiling point was predicted to be about −40 °C.
208PoF6 may have been successfully synthesised via the same reaction in 1960 with the more stable isotope 208Po, where a volatile polonium fluoride was produced, but it was not fully characterized before it underwent radiolysis and decomposed to polonium tetrafluoride.
References
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