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Spectroscopic Observation of a Group 12 Oxyfluoride: A Matrix-Isolation and Quantum-Chemical Investigation of Mercury Oxyfluorides†

  1. Prof. Lester Andrews1,
  2. Prof. Xuefeng Wang1,2,
  3. Dr. Yu Gong1,
  4. Dipl.-Chem. Tobias Schlöder3,
  5. Dr. Sebastian Riedel3,*,
  6. Marvin J. Franger4

Article first published online: 18 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201204331

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 51, Issue 33, pages 8235–8238, August 13, 2012

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How to Cite

Andrews, L., Wang, X., Gong, Y., Schlöder, T., Riedel, S. and Franger, M. J. (2012), Spectroscopic Observation of a Group 12 Oxyfluoride: A Matrix-Isolation and Quantum-Chemical Investigation of Mercury Oxyfluorides . Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51: 8235–8238. doi: 10.1002/anie.201204331

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319 (USA)

  2. 2

    Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092 (P.R. China)

  3. 3

    Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg (Germany)

  4. 4

    Guest collaborator, Dentist, 2250 Old Ivy Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (USA)

*Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg (Germany)

  1. †

    L.A. gratefully acknowledges financial support from DOE Grant DE-SC0001034 and NCSA computing Grant CHE07-0004N. S.R. thanks the DFG project HA 5639/3-1 and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) for financial support, the BWGrid cluster for computational resources, and Profs. I. Krossing and H. Hillebrecht for their generous and continuous support.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 7 AUG 2012
  2. Article first published online: 18 JUL 2012
  3. Manuscript Received: 4 JUN 2012

Funded by

  • DOE. Grant Number: DE-SC0001034
  • NCSA. Grant Number: CHE07-0004N
  • DFG. Grant Number: HA 5639/3-1
  • Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
  • FCI

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Keywords:

  • fluorine;
  • high oxidation states;
  • matrix isolation;
  • mercury;
  • oxyfluorides
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Getting to the root of Hg: Experiments with amalgams as a source for laser-ablated Hg atoms as reaction partners with OF2 gave strong HgF2 IR absorptions and new bands in the Hg[BOND]F stretching region for OHgF and FOHgF molecules trapped in solid neon and argon. Assignment of these new bands to the first oxyfluoride of mercury, OHgF, and to the FOHgF insertion product is supported by quantum-chemical methods.

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