The X-ray crystal structure of vanadium oxide trifluoride and its relationship to those of vanadium tetrafluoride and chromium dioxide difluoride

Abstract

Vanadium oxide trifluoride has unit cell dimensions very similar to those of vanadium tetrafluoride and chromium dioxide difluoride: in the solid, vanadium atoms are linked into pairs through di-µ-fluorobridges, and these units are linked into sheets by cis-bridging fluorine atoms, giving a distorted octahedral arrangement around each vanadium atom.