Platinum(IV) bromide is the
inorganic compound
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Inorgan ...
with the
formula
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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
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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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