title: Palladium fluoride
text: # Palladium fluoride
  
  Palladium fluoride is the name of a series of binary compounds of palladium and fluorine. These include:
  
  * Palladium(II) fluoride or palladium difluoride, $PdF_2$
  * Palladium(II,IV) fluoride or palladium trifluoride, $PdF_3.$ It is not palladium(III) fluoride (which is unknown), and is often described as palladium(II) hexafluoropalladate(IV), $Pd^{II}[Pd^{IV}F_6]$
  * Palladium(IV) fluoride, or palladium tetrafluoride, $PdF_4$
  * Palladium(VI) fluoride, or palladium hexafluoride, $PdF_6,$ which is calculated to be stable
  
  Palladium-fluorine coordination complexes have been developed to catalyse the synthesis of aryl fluorides, which are otherwise difficult to make.
  
  