“…Yearly production and use of the halogens fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. [1] ogens and polyhalogens.N eutral interhalogen species (e.g., BrCl, BrF 3 ,C lF 5 ,I 2 Cl 6 ,I F 7 ), cationic (e.g., [I 3 ] + , [10] [Cl 3 ] + , [11] [Br 5 ] + , [12] [I 15 ] 3+ , [13] [Br 3 F 8 ] + [14] ), and anionic polyhalogen species are known. In contrast to the presently underexplored polyhalogen cations,o fw hich only af ew examples exist, the diversity of polyhalogen anions is significantly greater.…”