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įSSF 3 is stable as a solid, as a liquid below -74 ☌ and dissolved in other sulfur fluoride liquids. The nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of FSSF 3 shows four bands, each of eight lines at -53.2, -5.7, 26.3 and 204.1 ppm. The molecule is formed by the dimerization of sulfur difluoride. SF 3SF is also made in small amounts by reacting sulfur with silver fluoride, or photolysis of disulfur difluoride and SSF 2. Separation of the sulfur fluorides can be achieved by low temperature distillation. SF 3SCl can be removed from this mixture in a reaction with mercury. Byproducts include FSSF, SSF 2, SF 4, SF 3SCl, and FSSCl. SF 3SF can be made in the laboratory when low pressure (10mm) SCl 2 vapour is passed over potassium fluoride or mercuric fluoride heated to 150 ☌. įSSF 3 reacts with copper at high temperatures producing copper fluoride and copper sulfide. įSSF 3 spontaneously reacts with oxygen gas to make thionyl fluoride, the only sulfur fluoride that does not need any assistance to do this. Ī symmetrical molecule F 2SSF 2 is calculated to be 15.1 kcal/mol higher in energy than FSSF 3. However it is indefinitely stable at -196 ☌. Disproportionation to SSF 2 and SF 4 catalysed by metal fluorides can take place in under one second. Īs a gas, at ambient and totally clean conditions, FSSF 3 decomposes with a half life of about 10 hours. When FSSF 3 dissociates, the F cis atom forms a new bond to the S top atom, and the S-S bond breaks. hydrogen fluoride catalyses disproportionation to sulfur and sulfur tetrafluoride by forming a reactive intermediate HSF molecule. A side reaction also produces the intermediate F 3SSSF 3. It also disproportionates: SF 2 + FSSF 3 → FSSF + SF 4. The dimerization reaction 2SF 2 ⇌ FSSF 3 is reversible. atom 1į eq is 90° from F trans, and 84° from F cis, and the torsion compared to F top is about 95°. The fluorine atoms are labelled F top attached to S top, and on the hypervalent S atom: F cis, the closest F atom to F top, F trans the furthest away F atom from F top, and F eq Ĭarlowitz first determined the structure in 1983. Ītoms are labelled with the sulfur atom connected to three fluorine atoms as S hyp (for hypervalent) and S top. The molecule can be considered as sulfur tetrafluoride in which a sulfur atom is inserted into a S-F bond. The bond strength is not correlated with bond length but is inversely correlated with the force constant ( Badger's rule). It has the uncommon property that all the bond lengths are different. The molecule has a pair of sulfur atoms, with one fluorine atom on one sulfur, and three fluorine atoms on the other. 1,1,1,2-tetrafluorodisulfane, also known as 1,2-difluorodisulfane 1,1-difluoride or just difluorodisulfanedifluoride ( FSSF 3) is an unstable molecular compound of fluorine and sulfur.