Platinum(IV) bromide is the
inorganic compound with the
formula PtBr
4. It is a brown solid. It is a little-used compound mainly of interest for academic research.
It is a component of a reagent used in
qualitative inorganic analysis
Classical qualitative inorganic analysis is a method of analytical chemistry which seeks to find the elemental composition of inorganic compounds. It is mainly focused on detecting ions in an aqueous solution, therefore materials in other forms ma ...
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In terms of structure, the compound is an inorganic polymer consisting of interconnected PtBr
6 octahedra.
References
Bromides,4
Bromides
Platinum group halides
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