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Structures of Xenon Oxygen Compounds
Author(s) -
Turowsky L.,
Seppelt K.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1521-3749
pISSN - 0044-2313
DOI - 10.1002/zaac.19926090327
Subject(s) - crystallography , xenon , chemistry , oxygen atom , trigonal bipyramidal molecular geometry , oxygen , crystal structure , tetrahedron , molecule , organic chemistry
The structure of long known Xe(OTeF 5 ) 4 is established by x‐ray crystallography. The xenon atom is surrounded by four equidistant oxygen atoms in a square planar manner. O 2 Xe(OTeF 5 ) 2 is formed according to OXe(OTeF 5 ) 4 → O 2 Xe(OTeF 5 ) 2 + F 5 TeOTeF 5 , Its structure, again established by x‐ray crystallography, shows a very distorted tetrahedral or pseudo‐trigonal bipyramidal xenon environment. The electron pair repulsion models fails here in explaining the details of this geometry.