Astatine iodide is an interhalogen compound with the chemical formula At I. It is the second heaviest known interhalogen compound, after iodine tribromide.

Production

Astatine iodide is produced by the direct combination of

astatine Astatine is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol At and atomic number 85. It is the abundance of elements in Earth's crust, rarest naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust, occurring only as the Decay chain, decay product ...

and

iodine Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53. The heaviest of the stable halogens, it exists at standard conditions as a semi-lustrous, non-metallic solid that melts to form a deep violet liquid at , and boils to a vi ...

in a 1:1 molar ratio: :At₂ + I₂ → 2 AtI

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* {{Iodides Interhalogen compounds Diatomic molecules Astatine compounds Iodine compounds