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Chemical compound
Potassium dithioferrate is the inorganic compound with the formula KFeS2. It is a purple solid that is insoluble in water. Regarding its chemical structure, the compound consists of infinite chains of edge-shared anionic FeS4 tetrahedra. Associated with these chains are potassium ions. A related family of one-dimensional materials with the formula MFe2S3 (M = K, Rb, Cs). These mixed-valence compounds are represented by the mineral rasvumite.
The compound is prepared by heating iron powder, sulfur, and potassium carbonate at 900 °C. According to the idealized stoichiometry, this reaction is proposed to cogenerate potassium sulfate:
6Fe + 13S + 4K2CO3 → 6KFeS2 + K2SO4 + 4CO2