802. Arsenic Trifluoride

Nomenclature

CAS number: 7784-35-2
Arsenous trifluoride.
AsF3; mol wt 131.92.
As 56.79%, F 43.20%.

Description and references

Prepn: Russell et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 63, 2825 (1941); Woolf, Greenwood, J. Chem. Soc. 1950, 2200; Hoffman, Inorg. Synth. 4, 151 (1953); Kwasnik in Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry vol. 1, G. Brauer, Ed. (Academic Press, New York, 2nd ed., 1963) pp 197-198. Review: Kemmitt, Sharp, Adv. Fluorine Chem. 4, 208-209 (1965).

Properties

Mobile liquid. Poisonous. Fumes in air. Etches glass. d1515 2.73. mp 5.95°. bp 57.8°. Also reported as mp 8.5°; bp 63° (Kwasnik). Hydrolyzed by water. Sol in alcohol, ether, benzene. May be stored in iron vessels.

Caution

Extremely toxic.