The vibrational spectra of some chloro-complexes of germanium, tin, phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony

Abstract
Complete vibrational spectra and assignments are reported for the following species: PCl5, PCl6 , AsCl4 +, AsCl6 SbCl5, SbCl6 , and GeCl6 2–. Partial data are reported for the species GeCl5 , SnCl5 , and SnCl6 2–. It is suggested that the compound AsCl5,SbCl5 is correctly formulated as AsCl4 +SbCl6 while the related compound PCl5,AsCl5(although not obtained pure) is probably the salt PCl4 +AsCl6 . Calculated and observed data are compared for all the MCl5 species mentioned above.