This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. We thank the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for scholarship for A. E.
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XeOF
, an Anion with Pentagonal-Pyramidal Structure†
Article first published online: 22 DEC 2003
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199515861
Copyright © 1995 by VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Germany
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Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
Volume 34, Issue 15, pages 1586–1587, August 18, 1995
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Ellern, A. and Seppelt, K. (1995), XeOF
, an Anion with Pentagonal-Pyramidal Structure. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 34: 1586–1587. doi: 10.1002/anie.199515861
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- Issue published online: 22 DEC 2003
- Article first published online: 22 DEC 2003
- Manuscript Received: 15 MAR 1995
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Keywords:
- fluorine compounds;
- xenon compounds

Only minimally distorted by interionic forces in the crystal, the ion XeOF
(picture on the right, bond lengths in pm) can be crystallized as NO+XeOF
. The xenon atom is situated only slightly above the plane through the fluorine atoms, and the doubly bonded oxygen atom occupies the apical position of the pentagonal pyramid. NO+XeOF
is formed directly by treatment of NOF with an equimolar amount of XeOF4 and crystallizes spontaneously from the liquid phase.

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