Sunday, March 12, 2017

What is lithium hexafluorophosphate?


Lithium hexafluorophosphate is an asleep admixture with the blueprint LiPF6. It is a white apparent powder. It is acclimated in bartering accessory batteries, an appliance that exploits its top solubility in nonpolar solvents. Specifically, solutions of lithium hexafluorophosphate in propylene carbonate and dimethoxyethane serve as an electrolyte in lithium batteries.This appliance aswell exploits the affluence of the hexafluorophosphate anion against able abbreviation agents, such as lithium metal.
The alkali is almost abiding thermally, but loses 50% weight at 200 °C (392 °F). It hydrolyzes abreast 70 °C (158 °F) according to the afterward equation:

LiPF6 + H2O HF + PF5 + LiOH

Owing to the Lewis acidity of the Li+ ions, LiPF6 aswell catalyses the tetrahydropyranylation of tertiary alcohols.

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