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Zinc fluoride

powder, 99%

Synonym(s):

Zinc difluoride

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Linear Formula:
ZnF2
CAS Number:
7783-49-5
Molecular Weight:
103.39
EC Number:
232-001-9
MDL number:
MFCD00011298
UNSPSC Code:
12352300
PubChem Substance ID:
329752015

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 970 °C)

Assay

99%

form

powder

reaction suitability

reagent type: catalyst
core: zinc

mp

872 °C (lit.)

density

4.95 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

F[Zn]F

InChI

1S/2FH.Zn/h2*1H;/q;;+2/p-2

InChI key

BHHYHSUAOQUXJK-UHFFFAOYSA-L

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General description

Zinc fluoride is a Lewis acid catalyst that can be used in a variety of reactions including esterification, Mukaiyama aldol reaction, Mannich reaction, Friedel-Crafts alkylation, and allylation. It can also be used as an additive in numerous catalytic transformations.

Application

Zinc fluoride can be used as a catalyst to synthesize optically active β-amino ketones and esters via asymmetric Mannich reaction.

Pictograms

Exclamation markEnvironment
GHS07,GHS09

Signal Word

Warning

Hazard Statements

H302 + H332,H315,H411

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Chronic 2 - Skin Irrit. 2

Storage Class Code

13 - Non Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Turcotte-Savard M, et al.
e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (2001)
Novel sol-gel prepared zinc fluoride: synthesis, characterisation and acid-base sites analysis.
Guo Y, et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(29), 14587-14593 (2009)
Theoretical studies of valence orbital binding energies in solid zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and zinc fluoride.
Tossell JA.
Inorganic Chemistry, 16(11), 2944-2949 (1977)
Shinsuke Hayashi et al.
The Journal of chemical physics, 129(4), 044313-044313 (2008-08-07)
Highly correlated ab initio calculations have been performed for an accurate determination of the electronic structure and of the spectroscopy of the low lying electronic states of the ZnF system. Using effective core pseudopotentials and aug-cc-pVQZ basis sets for both
Shū Kobayashi et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(20), 5640-5641 (2002-05-16)
The catalytic, diastereo- and enantioselective Mannich-type reaction of a hydrazono ester with silyl enol ethers in aqueous media has been successfully achieved with ZnF(2), a chiral diamine ligand, and trifluoromethanesulfonic acid.
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