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The result was merge to Uranium#Halides. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 13:50, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Uranium pentaiodide[edit]

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The only thing I can find about this substance is that it doesn't exist. The ChemSpider record is marked "deprecated: text-mining artefact - prospect error coupled with N2S error". The one ref we do have doi:10.1021/cr60261a004 talks extensively about many related compounds, but nothing about this one except "doesn't exist" (not even computational studies or theoretical analysis). DMacks (talk) 13:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. DMacks (talk) 13:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• I can give you one and a bit more sources from four years later. Is it worth having an article for a complex that has verifiably never been made? ☺ Durrett is doing a survey of the literature on pentavalent uranium and in fact cites Selbin & Ortego 1969 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSelbinOrtego1969 (help) (same paper, but full authors). uranium pentabromide needs some attention, doesn't it? Uncle G (talk) 16:15, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Durrett, David Glen (1972). Theoretical, Physical, and Chemical Studies of Oxouranium (v) and Related Species (Ph.D. thesis). Historical Dissertations and Theses. Louisiana State University. p. 4. Uranium pentaiodide has not been prepared and is evidently too unstable to be isolated.
  • Bagnall, K. W., ed. (1972). MTP International Review of Science. Vol. 7 Lanthanides and Actinides. Butterworths. p. 126. ISBN 9780839110071. No complexes with donor ligands are known for these thermodynamically unstable pentahalides or for protactinium pentaiodide and uranium pentaiodide (the last also thermodynamically unstable).
• Merge to Uranium#Halides. The nonexistence of this compound is significant enough to be mentioned there, but insufficient to justify a standalone article. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:17, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Uranium#Halides per LaundryPizza03. A brief mention there should serve searchers seeking information about this compound. Certainly no need for the current stub. Mdewman6 (talk) 17:05, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge; there isn't really a whole lot to say, and really not a whole lot has been said. The information that it's never been made, of course, is useful, but it doesn't justify a standalone article. jp×g 23:57, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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