Ammonium hexachloropalladate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula .
Synthesis Ammonium hexachloropalladate can be made by passing chlorine through a suspension of ammonium tetrachloropalladate(II) in ammonium chloride solution:
The compound can be precipitated from a solution of hexachloropalladate by adding ammonium chloride:
Physical properties Ammonium hexachloropalladate forms red-brown crystals of cubic system, space group Fm3m, cell parameters a = 0.983 nm, Z = 4.
It is slightly soluble in water.
Chemical properties The compound decomposes upon heating to form ammonium tetrachloropalladate(II):
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