Cobalt(III) chloride

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Cobalt(III) chloride
Names
IUPAC name
Cobalt(III) chloride
Other names
Cobaltic chloride
Cobalt trichloride
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
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EC Number
  • 233-574-8
PubChem CID
  • InChI=1S/3ClH.Co/h3*1H;/q;;;+3/p-3
    Key: IEKWPPTXWFKANS-UHFFFAOYSA-K
  • Cl[Co](Cl)Cl
Properties
CoCl3
Molar mass 165.2913 g/mol (anhydrous)
Melting point Solid decomposes over −60°C
Solubility soluble in ethanol, diethyl ether
Hazards
GHS labelling:
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Danger
H300, H330
P260, P264, P270, P271, P284, P301+P310, P304+P340, P310, P320, P321, P330, P403+P233, P405, P501
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Cobalt(III) chloride or cobaltic chloride is an unstable and elusive compound of cobalt and chlorine with formula CoCl
3. In this compound, the cobalt atoms have a formal charge of +3. [1]

Contents

The compound has been reported to exist in the gas phase at high temperatures, in equilibrium with cobalt(II) chloride and chlorine gas. [2] [3] It has also been found to be stable at very low temperatures, dispersed in a frozen argon matrix. [4]

Some articles from the 1920s and 1930s claim the synthesis of bulk amounts of this compound in pure form; [5] [6] however, those results do not seem to have been reproduced, or have been attributed to other substances like the hexachlorocobaltate(III) anion CoCl3−
6. [1] Those earlier reports claim that it gives green solutions in anhydrous solvents such as ethanol and diethyl ether, and that it is stable only a very low temperatures (below −60 °C). [7]

Structure and properties

The infrared spectrum of the compound in frozen argon indicates that the isolated CoCl
3 molecule is planar with D3h symmetry. [4]

A Scientific study of the stability of this and other metal trihalides at 50 °C was published by Nelsoon and Sharpe in 1956. [8]

Aerodynamic properties for the gas phase have been determined by the Glushko Thermocenter of the Russian Academy of Sciences. [9]

Preparation

Cobalts trichlorides was detected in 1952 by Schäfer and Krehl in the gas phase when cobalt(II) chloride CoCl
2 is heated in an atmosphere of chlorine Cl
2. The trichloride is formed through the equilibrium

2CoCl
2 + Cl
2 ↔ 2 CoCl
3

At 918 K (below the melting point of CoCl
2, 999 K), the trichloride was the predominant cobalt species in the vapor, with partial pressure of 0.72 mm Hg versus 0.62 for the dichloride. However, equilibrium shifts to the left at higher temperatures. At 1073 K, the partial pressures were 7.3 and 31.3 mm Hg, respectively. [2] [10] [3]

Cobalt trichloride, in amounts sufficient to study spectroscopically, was obtained by Green and others in 1983, by sputtering cobalt electrodes with chlorine atoms and trapping the resulting molecules in frozen argon at 14 K. [4]

A report from 1969 claims that treatment of solid cobalt(III) hydroxide CoOOH·H
2O with anhydrous ether saturated with HCl at −20 °C produces a green solution (stable at −78 °C) with the characteristic spectrum of CoCl
3. [1]

In a 1932 report, the compound was claimed to arise in the electrolysis of cobalt(II) chloride in anhydrous ethanol. [7]

The hexachlorocobaltate(III) anion CoCl3−
6 has been identified in preparations of cobalt(III) salts and hydrochloric acid HCl in glacial acetic acid. [1]

In solutions of cobalt(III) salts with chloride ions, the anionic complexes (H
2O)
5Co(Cl)2+
 and (H
2O)
4(OH)Co(Cl)+
 are present. [11]

Trichlorides of cobalt(III) complexed with various ligands, such as organic amines, can be quite stable. In particular, hexamminecobalt(III) chloride Co(NH
3)
6Cl
3 is the archetypal Werner complex and has uses in biological research. Another classical example is tris(ethylenediamine)cobalt(III) chloride Co(H
2N–C
2H
4–NH
2)
3Cl
3.

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References

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    3    ". In: Landolt-Börnstein - Group IV Physical Chemistry, Part 3: Compounds from CoCl
    3    g to Ge
    3    N
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    2     gas + 1/2 Cl
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