Solid-State NMR Spectroscopic Study of Coordination Compounds of XeF2 with Metal Cations and the Crystal Structure of [Ba(XeF2)5][AsF6]2

Prediction of neutral noble gas insertion compounds with heavier pnictides: FNgY (Ng = Kr and Xe; Y = As, Sb and Bi)

Neutral noble gas insertion compounds involving arsenic, antimony and bismuth atoms wherein the triplet electronic state is the ground state are predicted for the first time.

Calculation of chemical-shift tensors of heavy nuclei: a DFT/ZORA investigation of 199Hg chemical-shift tensors in solids, and the effects of cluster size and electronic-state approximations

A ZORA/DFT investigation of the NMR chemical shielding of a suite of ¹⁹⁹Hg-containing solid materials shows the importance of calculations with the molecular-cluster method.

Multiple resonance heteronuclear decoupling under MAS: dramatic increase of spectral resolution at moderate magnetic field and MAS frequencies

The effects of multiple-resonance heteronuclear decoupling under magic angle spinning (MAS) on the resolution of one-dimensional (19)F and (31)P and various two-dimensional MAS NMR spectra and on the residual non-refocusable coherence lifetimes in fluorinated aluminophosphate AlPO(4)-CJ2, i.e. a compound that contains numerous highly abundant nuclei but no homonuclear spin bath, has been investigated. The design of the four-channel ((1)H, (19)F, (27)Al, (31)P) MAS probe used for this study is first described. (1)H and (1)H-(27)Al double-resonance decouplings allows lengthening the optimized transverse relaxation T(2)(opt) and increasing the resolution in the (19)F and (31)P dimensions. Under the application of multi-nuclear decoupling, a two-dimensional (19)F-(31)P CP-HETCOR correlation spectrum for AlPO(4)-CJ2 is recorded with unprecedented high-resolution in the two dimensions. Moreover, because (1)H-decoupling increases the (19)F T(2)(opt), it has been applied during the entire duration of the 2D NMR experiments, allowing the direct use of residual small interactions to generate (19)F-(19)F and (19)F-(27)Al 2D NMR correlation spectra in AlPO(4)-CJ2.

Synthesis, NMR and vibrational spectroscopic characterization, and computational study of the cis-IO2F3 2- anion

The N(CH3)4(+) salt of the cis-IO2F3(2-) anion was synthesized from [N(CH 3)4][IO2F2] and excess [N(CH3)4][F] in CH3CN solvent. The [N(CH3)4] 2[IO2F3] salt was characterized by Raman, infrared, and (19)F solid-state MAS NMR spectroscopy. Geometry optimization and calculation of the vibrational frequencies at the DFT level of theory corroborated the experimental finding that the IO2F3(2-) anion exists as a single isomer with a cis-dioxo and mer-trifluoro arrangement. The fluorine atom in IO2F3(2-) that is trans to one of the oxygen atoms is weakly bound with a calculated bond length of 228.1 pm. The IO2F3(2-) anion is only the second example of an AEO 2F 3 species after XeO2F3(-).