Chemiluminescent reactions of oxygen fluoride. 2. Reactions producing excited bromine fluoride and iodine fluoride

Abstract

Publication costs asslsted by Rockwell InternationalChemiluminescence from electronically excited BrF and IF has been observed from reactions of molecular halides (Br2, Iz, ICl, and HI) with OzF. Much more intense emission is produced by reactions of bromine or iodine atoms with OzF in the presence of excited singlet molecular oxygen. The emission spectra and photon yields of these reactions are consistent with a proposed mechanism in which the X + OzF reactions produce vibrationally excited ground state XFt molecules. These may cross to the A W , ) state (if sufficient energy is available) or be pumped to the B(3110+) state by collisions with excited singlet oxygen. In the reactions of molecular halides with OzF, halogen atoms may be produced via formation and decomposition of a triatomic complex.

Generation and time decay of gas phase oxygen fluoride radicals

“…The coordination parameters of these ligands, namely, the size of the cavity which hosts the ion, allow a certain degree of ionic specificity which has been widely discussed in relation to biological ionic carriers. 3 The ability of these macrocyclic ligands to "encapsulate" metal ions has been used advantageously in organic synthesis to solubilize electrolytes in nonaqueous phases. 4 This category of complexes has also been examined as extrathermodynamic means of evaluating single ion properties in solution.5…”