These properties show that the compound is covalently bonded molecule, rather than a salt.

[2] It can be formed by treating zirconium tetrachloride with dichlorine hexoxide-perchloric acid mixture at −35 °C.

[1] Zirconium perchlorate reacts irreversibly with most organic compounds but is inert towards carbon tetrachloride, chloroformide.

Solid zirconium perchlorate undergoes a phase transition around 45 °C before melting between 95.5 and 96.0 °C.

[1] In the gas phase the Zr(ClO4)4 molecule has a D4 symmetry with eightfold square antiprism oxygen coordination.