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Europium(II) chloride is an inorganic compound with a chemical formula EuCl2. When it is irradiated by ultraviolet light, it has bright blue fluorescence.[3]

Preparation

Europium dichloride can be produced by reducing europium trichloride with hydrogen gas at high temperature:[4]

2 EuCl3 + H2 → 2 EuCl2 + 2 HCl

If dry europium trichloride reacts with lithium borohydride in THF, it can also produce europium dichloride:[5]

2 EuCl3 + 2 LiBH4 → 2 EuCl2 + 2 LiCl + H2↑ + B2H6↑

Properties

Europium dichloride can form yellow ammonia complexes:EuCl2•8NH3, and can dissolve to pale yellowish EuCl2•NH3.[4] Europium dichloride can react with europium hydride at 120-bar H2, producing EuClH that fluoresces green.[6]

References

  1. ^ Roger Blachnik (Hrsg.): Taschenbuch für Chemiker und Physiker. Band III: Elemente, anorganische Verbindungen und Materialien, Minerale. begründet von Jean d’Ans, Ellen Lax. 4., neubearbeitete und revidierte Auflage. Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-60035-3, S. 446–447
  2. ^ a b Polyachenok, O. G.; Novikov, G. I. Saturated vapor pressures of SmCl2, EuCl2, YbCl2. Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii, 1963. 8 (12): 2631–2634. ISSN 0044-457X.
  3. ^ Howell, J.K.; Pytlewski, L.L. (August 1969). "Synthesis of divalent europium and ytterbium halides in liquid ammonia". Journal of the Less Common Metals. 18 (4): 437–439. doi:10.1016/0022-5088(69)90017-4.
  4. ^ a b Klemm, Wilhelm; Doll, Walter. Measurements on the bivalent and the quadrivalent compounds of the rare earths. VI. The halides of bivalent europium. Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 1939. 241: 233–238. ISSN 0044-2313.
  5. ^ Rossmanith, K.; Muckenhuber, E. Reaction of rare earth chlorides with lithium borohydride. II. Monatshefte fuer Chemie, 1961. 92: 600–604. ISSN 0026-9247.
  6. ^ Kunkel, Nathalie; Rudolph, Daniel; Meijerink, Andries; Rommel, Stefan; Weihrich, Richard; Kohlmann, Holger; Schleid, Thomas (2015). "Green Luminescence of Divalent Europium in the Hydride Chloride EuHCl". Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 641 (7): 1220–1224. doi:10.1002/zaac.201400531. ISSN 0044-2313.
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