Palladium fluoride explained

Palladium fluoride is the name of a series of binary compounds of palladium and fluorine. These include:

• Palladium(II) fluoride or palladium difluoride, PdF₂
• Palladium(II,IV) fluoride or palladium trifluoride, PdF₃. It is not palladium(III) fluoride (which is unknown), and is often described as palladium(II) hexafluoropalladate(IV), Pd^II[Pd^IVF₆]
• Palladium(IV) fluoride, or palladium tetrafluoride, PdF₄
• Palladium(VI) fluoride, or palladium hexafluoride, PdF₆, which is calculated to be stable^[1]

Palladium-fluorine coordination complexes have been developed to catalyse the synthesis of aryl fluorides, which are otherwise difficult to make.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

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2. . 2002 . 8 . 5 . 1006–1014 . Palladium Fluoride Complexes: One More Step toward Metal-Mediated C-F Bond Formation . V. V. . Grushin . 10.1002/1521-3765(20020301)8:5<1006::AID-CHEM1006>3.0.CO;2-M . 11891886.
3. . 325 . 1661–1664 . Formation of ArF from LPdAr(F): Catalytic Conversion of Aryl Triflates to Aryl Fluorides . D. A. . Watson . M. . Su . G. . Teverovskiy . Y. . 2009 . Zhang . J. . García-Fortanet . T. . Kinzel . S. L. . Buchwald . 10.1126/science.1178239 . 19679769 . 5948 . 3038120. 2009Sci...325.1661W .