A 19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Halogen Exchange between Antimony Pentafluoride and Inorganic Chlorides. Complexes of Antimony and Arsenic Pentafluorides with Carbonyl Fluoride

Abstract

19F nuclear magnetic resonance (n.m.r.) has been used to study the reactions occurring in the systems SbCl5–SbF5–SO2ClF, SO2Cl2–SbF5–SO2ClF, COF2–SbF5–SO2ClF, COF2–AsF5–SO2ClF, and COClF–SbF5–SO2ClF. Ionization occurs in SbCl5–SbF5–SO2ClF, yielding antimony chloro- and chloro-fluorocations and antimony polyfluoroanions. Donor-acceptor complexes are formed between SbF5 and SO2Cl2, COF2 or COClF at low temperatures and also between AsF5 and COF2. In all the complexes the ligand is oxygen-bonded. At higher temperatures halogen exchange and ionization occurs in SO2Cl2–SbF5–SO2ClF and COClF–SbF5–SO2ClF giving SO2ClF and COF2 complexes, respectively, together with antimony cations and polyfluoroanions. The alkyl chloride –SbF5 reaction is also shown to give chlorine-containing cations of antimony.