Rhenium heptafluoride
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Rhenium heptafluoride

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Rhenium heptafluoride

Rhenium heptafluoride is the compound with the formula ReF7. It is a yellow low melting solid and is the only thermally stable metal heptafluoride. It has a distorted pentagonal bipyramidal structure similar to IF7, which was confirmed by neutron diffraction at 1.5 K. The structure is non-rigid, as evidenced by electron diffraction studies.

Rhenium heptafluoride can be prepared from the elements at 400 °C:

It also can be produced by the explosion of rhenium metal under sulfur hexafluoride.

It hydrolyzes under a base to form perrhenic acid and hydrogen fluoride:

With fluoride donors such as CsF, the ReF
8
anion is formed, which has a square antiprismatic structure. With antimony pentafluoride, SbF5, a fluoride acceptor, the ReF+
6
cation is formed.

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