Silver(I) fluoride

Silver(I) fluoride (AgF), also known as argentous fluoride, is a compound of silver and fluorine. It is a ginger-coloured solid, melting point 435 °C^[1], which blackens on exposure to moist air. Unlike other silver halides such as silver chloride it is soluble in water to the extent of 1.8 kg/L^[1], and it even has some solubility in acetonitrile. AgF is made from silver(I) carbonate and hydrofluoric acid. Sample of silver(I) fluoride File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Sample of silver(I) fluoride File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Fluorine, F, 9 Series Halogens Group, Period, Block 17 (VIIA), 2, p Density, Hardness 1. ... Silver chloride (also called silver(I) chloride) is a chemical compound with chemical formula AgCl. ... A falling water droplet Water (from the Anglo-Saxon and Low German wæter) is a colourless, tasteless, and odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is the most universal solvent. ... Acetonitrile is an organic molecule, often used as a solvent, with the chemical formula of CH3CN. Also known as methyl cyanide, it is the simplest of the organic nitriles. ... Hydrofluoric acid is a highly corrosive solution of the chemical compound hydrogen fluoride in water. ...

Silver(I) fluoride finds most application in organofluorine chemistry for addition of fluoride across multiple bonds. For example, AgF adds to perfluoroalkenes in acetonitrile to give perfluoroalkylsilver(I) derivatives:^[2] R_FCF=CF₂ + AgF → R_FCF(CF₃)Ag A fluoride ion is the ionic form of fluorine. ... An alkene is one of the three classes of unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain at least one carbon- carbon double bond and have the general molecular formula of CnH2n (the other two being alkynes and arenes). ...

Silver also forms a higher fluoride, silver(II) fluoride. General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2. ...

See also

• Naming Ionic Compounds

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References

1. Chemistry of the Elements, NN Greenwood & A Earnshaw, Pergamon Press.
2. Miller, W. T.; Burnard, R. J., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1968, 90, 7367-7368.