Rhenium(VII) oxide
Rhenium(VII) oxide
Names
Other names
Rhenium heptoxide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
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EC Number
  • 215-241-9
UNII
  • Key: NBGOSNNAAHDRLK-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • InChI=1S/7O.2Re
  • O=[Re](=O)(=O)O[Re](=O)(=O)=O
Properties
Re2O7
Molar mass 484.40298 g/mol
Appearance yellow crystalline powder
Density 6.103 g/cm3, solid
Melting point 360 °C (680 °F; 633 K)
Boiling point sublimes
Hazards
GHS labelling:[1]
GHS05: Corrosive
Danger
H314
P260, P264, P280, P301+P330+P331, P303+P361+P353, P304+P340, P305+P351+P338, P310, P321, P363, P405, P501
Related compounds
Related compounds
 Manganese(VII) oxide; technetium(VII) oxide; perrhenic acid
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Rhenium(VII) oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Re2O7. This yellowish solid is the anhydride of HOReO3. Perrhenic acid, Re2O7·2H2O, is closely related to Re2O7. Re2O7 is the raw material for all rhenium compounds, being the volatile fraction obtained upon roasting the host ore.[2]

Structure

Solid Re2O7 consists of alternating octahedral and tetrahedral Re centres. Upon heating, the polymer cracks to give molecular (nonpolymeric) Re2O7. This molecular species closely resembles manganese heptoxide, consisting of a pair of ReO4 tetrahedra that share a vertex, i.e., O3Re–O–ReO3.[3]

Synthesis and reactions

Rhenium(VII) oxide is formed when metallic rhenium or its oxides or sulfides are oxidized at 500–700 °C (900–1,300 °F) in air.[4]

Re2O7 dissolves in water to give perrhenic acid.

Heating Re2O7 gives rhenium dioxide, a reaction signalled by the appearance of the dark blue coloration:[5]

2Re2O7 → 4ReO2 + 3O2

Using tetramethyltin, it converts to methylrhenium trioxide ("MTO"), a catalyst for oxidations:[6]

Re2O7 + 2Sn(CH3)4 → CH3ReO3 + (CH3)3SnOReO3

In a related reaction, it reacts with hexamethyldisiloxane to give the siloxide:[4]

Re2O7 + 2O(Si(CH3)3)2 → 2(CH3)3SiOReO3

Uses

Hydrogenation catalyst

Rhenium(VII) oxide finds some use in organic synthesis as a catalyst for ethenolysis,[7] carbonyl reduction and amide reduction.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Rhenium(VII) oxide". pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ Georg Nadler, Hans (2000). "Rhenium and Rhenium Compounds". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a23_199. ISBN 978-3527306732.
  3. ^ Wells, A.F. (1984). Structural Inorganic Chemistry. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-855370-6.
  4. ^ a b Schmidt, Max; Schmidbaur, Hubert (1967). Trimethylsilyl Perrhenate. Inorganic Syntheses. Vol. 9. pp. 149–151. doi:10.1002/9780470132401.ch40. ISBN 9780470132401.
  5. ^ Glemser, O. (1963). "Rhenium". In G. Brauer (ed.). Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Academic Press. pp. 1476–1485.
  6. ^ W. A. Herrmann; F. E. Kuhn (1997). "Organorhenium Oxides". Acc. Chem. Res. 30 (4): 169–180. doi:10.1021/ar9601398.
  7. ^ Lionel Delaude; Alfred F. Noels, "Metathesis", Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, New York: John Wiley, doi:10.1002/0471238961.metanoel.a01, ISBN 9780471238966
  8. ^ Nishimura, Shigeo (2001). Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation for Organic Synthesis (1st ed.). New York: Wiley-Interscience. pp. 42–43, 182, 389–390, & 408. ISBN 978-0-471-39698-7.
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