Rhenium pentafluoride
Rhenium pentafluoride is a binary inorganic compound of rhenium and fluorine with the chemical formula. This is a salt of rhenium and hydrofluoric acid.
Synthesis
Rhenium pentafluoride can be synthesised by the reduction of rhenium hexafluoride with hydrogen, rhenium, or tungsten:Physical properties
Rhenium pentafluoride forms yellow-green crystals of orthorhombic crystal system, cell parameters a = 0.57 nm, b = 1.723 nm, c = 0.767 nm.Rhenium pentafluoride reacts with water.
Rhenium pentafluoride is volatile. The compound consists of dimers of composition.