9262. Thallium Fluoride

Nomenclature

CAS number: 7789-27-7
Thallous fluoride.
FTl; mol wt 223.38.
F 8.50%, Tl 91.50%.
TlF.

Description and references

Prepared from Tl2CO3 and HF: Ketelaar, Z. Kristallogr. 92, 30 (1935); Hayek, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 225, 47 (1935); Barrow et al., Trans. Faraday Soc. 51, 1650 (1955); from Tl and HF: Keneshea, Cubicciotti, J. Phys. Chem. 69, 3910 (1965); Tranquard, Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1967, 2578.

Properties

Hard, shiny, crystals which deliquesce when breathed upon, but which resolidify immediately in dry air. Not hygroscopic in the usual sense. Orthorhombic (deformed NaCl lattice). d425 8.36. mp 322°. Begins to sublime at 300°. Very freely sol in water. Concd solns show strong alkalinity.

Use

In the prepn of fluoro esters.