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Caesium dichloroiodate

Caesium dichloroiodate, also called caesium dichloroiodide is an inorganic compound with the formula Cs[ICl2]. This yellow-orange salt is a crystalline solid in its pure form at room temperature. Fractional crystallization of caesium dichloroiodate may be used to separate caesium from rubidium and purify it, as rubidium dichloroiodate (Rb[ICl2]) is much more soluble in hydrochloric acid. Furthermore, other metal impurities do not form dichloroiodate salts. Caesium dichloroiodate is notable for containing the linear dichloroiodate anions [ICl2]−, with connectivity Cl-I-Cl, which is analog of triiodide anion [I3]−.

Structure
The resolution of the crystal structure of caesium dichloroiodate via X-ray diffraction, by Wyckoff in his 1919 Ph.D. thesis (published 1920), established the linearity of the dichloroiodate ion, one of the first complex ions to have its structure solved using X-ray crystallography. The dichloroiodate ion is symmetric, with an I–Cl bond length of 2.548 Å. ==Properties==
Properties
Caesium dichloroiodate readily dissolves in room temperature water, forming a dark yellow-purple solution. This color is due to the production of free iodine via the hydrolysis of caesium dichloroiodate to elemental iodine, hydrochloric acid, and caesium ions. Such hydrolysis also slowly occurs on contact with normal air, which contains moisture, however this change is negligible over the time scale of a few days to weeks. == Preparation ==
Preparation
Caesium dichloroiodate may be synthesized via the reaction of caesium chloride (acidified using hydrochloric acid (or acetic acid)) with iodine monochloride. Thermolysis (ending at 450–500 °C) recovers the starting materials. ==References==
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