Iodine monofluoride is an interhalogen compound of iodine and fluorine with formula IF. It is a chocolate-brown solid that decomposes at 0 °C,[1] disproportionating to elemental iodine and iodine pentafluoride:
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IUPAC name
Iodine monofluoride
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Other names
Iodine fluoride
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Molar mass | 145.903 g/mol | ||
Appearance | unstable brown solid | ||
Melting point | −45 °C (−49 °F; 228 K) | ||
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Other anions
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Iodine monochloride Iodine monobromide Astatine monoiodide | ||
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Chlorine monofluoride Bromine monofluoride | ||
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Iodine trifluoride Iodine pentafluoride Iodine heptafluoride | ||
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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However, its molecular properties can still be precisely determined by spectroscopy: the iodine-fluorine distance is 190.9 pm and the I−F bond dissociation energy is around 277 kJ mol−1. At 298 K, its standard enthalpy change of formation is ΔfH° = −95.4 kJ mol−1, and its Gibbs free energy is ΔfG° = −117.6 kJ mol−1.
It can be generated, albeit only fleetingly, by the reaction of the elements at −45 °C in CCl3F:
It can also be generated by the reaction of iodine with iodine trifluoride at −78 °C in CCl3F:
The reaction of iodine with silver(I) fluoride at 0 °C also yields iodine monofluoride:
Iodine monofluoride is used to produce pure nitrogen triiodide:[2]