Archive for December 8th, 2017

Identification of a simplest hypervalent hydrogen fluoride anion.

Friday, December 8th, 2017

An article with the title shown above in part recently appeared.[1] Given the apparent similarity of HF1- to CH3F1- and CH3F2-, the latter of which I introduced on this blog previously, I thought it of interest to apply my analysis to HF1-.

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References

  1. M. Liu, H. Chen, C. Chin, T. Huang, Y. Chen, and Y. Wu, "Identification of a Simplest Hypervalent Hydrogen Fluoride Anion in Solid Argon", Scientific Reports, vol. 7, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02687-z