ChemInform Abstract: Solid State Structures of AsCl₅ and SbCl₅.

Abstract

-010Solid State Structures of AsCl 5 and SbCl 5 .-AsCl 5 crystallizes in space group Pmmn with Z = 2 and has a trigonal bipyramidal structure. Above -54 • C, SbCl 5 also has a trigonal bipyramidal structure (space group P63/mc, Z = 2), but this structure reversibly changes below -54 • C into a dimeric (SbCl 5 ) 2 structure (space group P2 1 /c, Z = 4) containing edge-sharing Sb 2