“…The vapor pressure (Junkins et al, 1952;Fairbrother & Frith, 1951), the enthalpy of fusion (Junkins et al, 1952), and the electrical conductivity (Fairbrother et al, 1954) of liquid NbF 5 have also been determined. Infrared and Raman spectra of the solid were measured (Preiss & Reich, 1968;Beattie et al, 1969) and the structure of NbF 5 in the (supercooled) liquid, glassy state and the gas phase have been investigated by Raman spectroscopy (Boghosian et al, 2005;Papatheodorou et al, 2008). In a search for a suitable laboratory synthesis of NbF 5 , we investigated several methods for its preparation.…”