Inspired by demorols post (# 518590); how would one go from Niobium metal to Niobium (V) Chloride? (NbCl5)
I believe it is the highest oxidation state of Niobium.
Tube furnace/Cl2 gas? How hot?
Electro chem?
Some Aqua Reagia round about way?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks!
Surelly not with aqueous chemistry, so you can forget aqua regia, electrolysis and similar. Nb(V) salts hydolize to Nb2O5.
I suspect you would need a high temperature chlorination with Cl2. So like you already suspected you would need a special furnace for that.
this is what i have on my computer, and it is understandable.
Georg Brauer, Handbuch der Praparativen Anorganischen Chemie 1444-1446 (1981)
(https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/hive/hiveboard/picproxie_docs/000519001-NbCl5.jpeg)