Phosphorus pentaiodide is a hypothetical inorganic compound with formula PI5. The existence of this compound has been claimed intermittently since the early 1900s.[2] The claim is disputed: "The pentaiodide does not exist (except perhaps as PI3·I2, but certainly not as [PI4]+I−...)".[3]
Although phosphorus pentaiodide has been claimed to exist in the form of [PI4]+I− (tetraiodophosphonium iodide), experimental and theoretical data refutes this claim.[5][1]
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^ abInis Tornieporth-Getting; Thomas Klapötke (1990). "The preparation and characterization by Raman spectroscopy of Pl4+AsF6– containing the tetraiodophosphonium cation". Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (2): 132–133. doi:10.1039/C39900000132.
^ abMartin Kaupp; Christoph Aubauer; Günter Engelhardt; Thomas M. Klapötke; Olga L. Malkina (1999). "The PI+4 cation has an extremely large negative 31P nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shift, due to spin–orbit coupling: A quantum-chemical prediction and its confirmation by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 110 (8): 3897–3902. Bibcode:1999JChPh.110.3897K. doi:10.1063/1.478243.