Copper(I) fluoride

Copper(I) fluoride
Names
IUPAC name
Copper(I) fluoride
Systematic IUPAC name
Fluorocopper[1]
Other names
Cuprous fluoride
Identifiers
13478-41-6 
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Properties
Molecular formula
 CuF
Molar mass 82.54 g·mol−1
Density 7.1 g cm−3
Structure
Crystal structure sphalerite
Except where noted otherwise, data is given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa)
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Copper(I) fluoride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula CuF. Its existence is uncertain. It was reported in 1933 to have a sphalerite-type crystal structure.[2] Modern textbooks state that CuF is not known,[3] since fluorine is so electronegative that it will always oxidise copper to its +2 oxidation state.[4] Complexes of CuF such as [(Ph3P)3CuF] are, however, known and well characterised.[5]

Synthesis and reactivity

It can be formed by the reduction of copper(II) fluoride. Unlike copper(I) chloride, copper(I) fluoride tends to disproportionate into copper(II) fluoride and copper in a one to one ratio at ambient conditions, unless it is stabilised through complexation as in the example of [Cu(N2)F].[6]

2CuF → Cu + CuF2

As a result of this disproportiontion, samples slowly become light cyan in colour, the colour of copper(II) fluoride.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Copper Monofluoride - PubChem Public Chemical Database". The PubChem Project. USA: National Center for Biotechnology Information.
  2. ↑ Ebert, F.; Woitinek, H. (1933). "Kristallstrukturen von Fluoriden. II. HgF, HgF2, CuF und CuF2". Z. anorg. allg. Chem. 210 (3): 269–272. doi:10.1002/zaac.19332100307.
  3. ↑ Housecroft, C. E.; Sharpe, A. G. (2008). Inorganic Chemistry (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. pp. 737–738. ISBN 978-0131755536.
  4. ↑ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1183–1185. ISBN 0080379419.
  5. ↑ Gulliver, D. J.; Levason, W.; Webster, M. (1981). "Coordination Stabilised Copper(I) Fluoride. Crystal and Molecular Structure of Fluorotris(triphenylphosphine)copper(I)·Ethanol (1/2), Cu(PPh3)3F·2EtOH". Inorg. Chim. Acta 52: 153–159. doi:10.1016/S0020-1693(00)88590-4.
  6. ↑ Francis, Simon G.; Matthews, Steven L.; Poleshchuk, Oleg Kh.; Walker, Nicholas R.; Legon, Anthony C. (2006-09-25). "N2-Cu-F: A Complex of Dinitrogen and Cuprous Fluoride Characterized by Rotational Spectroscopy". Angewandte Chemie 118 (38): 6489–6491. doi:10.1002/ange.200601988.