Indium(I) bromide

Indium(I) bromide is a chemical compound of indium and bromine. It is a red crystalline compound that is isostructural with β-TlI and has a distorted rock salt structure. Indium(I) bromide is generally made from the elements, heating indium metal with InBr3. It has been used in the sulfur lamp. In organic chemistry, it has been found to promote the coupling of α, α-dichloroketones to 1-aryl-butane-1,4-diones. Oxidative addition reactions with for example alkyl halides to give alkyl indium halides and with NiBr complexes to give Ni-In bonds are known. It is unstable in water decomposing into indium metal and indium tribromide. When indium dibromide is dissolved in water, InBr is produced as a, presumably, insoluble red precipitate, that then rapidly decomposes.

Indium(I) bromide
Names
IUPAC name
Indium(I) bromide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChemSpider
ECHA InfoCard 100.034.686
PubChem CID
  • InChI=1S/BrH.In/h1H;/q;+1/p-1 Y
    Key: KLRHPHDUDFIRKB-UHFFFAOYSA-M Y
  • InChI=1/BrH.In/h1H;/q;+1/p-1
    Key: KLRHPHDUDFIRKB-REWHXWOFAH
SMILES
  • [In]Br
  • [In+].[Br-]
Properties
InBr
Molar mass 194.722 g/mol
Density 4.960 g/cm3
Melting point 285 °C (545 °F; 558 K)
Boiling point 656 °C (1,213 °F; 929 K)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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