Absorption spectrum of gaseous terbium monofluoride

The Electronic Structure of the Lanthanide Monohalides: A Ligand Field Approach

“…0 (6p, 6p) EuF (9), GdF (10), TbF (11,12), DyF (13), HoF (14, ú 0; the availability of empirically adjustable shifts of orbital 15), YbF (16)(17)(18), LuF (19,20), LaCl (21), and YbCl energies for several LnF (5,8,10,13) and LnO (37, 38) (17). In recent years, ligand field theory (LFT) models molecules now makes it possible to carry out similar calculathat provide valuable qualitative and quantitative predictions tions for all of the lanthanide monohalides; (iii) the concerning the electronic, vibrational, and rotational states B k 0 (nl, nl) parameters, the anisotropic part of the ligand of diatomic lanthanide oxides and fluorides have been develfield that lifts the m l å l degeneracy of an nl orbital and oped (22)(23)(24)(25) 2 To whom correspondence should be addressed.…”