“…The perrhenate anions have been studied by both matrix isolation IR (Beneivenni et al, 1979(Beneivenni et al, , 1984Arthers et al, 1983) and by vapour phase electron diffraction (Spridonov et al, 1965;Roddatis et al, 1973;Petrov et al, 1980), therefore we decided to use RbReO 4 as a test example for the new apparatus. Whilst the matrix IR spectrum (Bencivenni et al, 1984;Arthers et al, 1983) of this has been reported, the ED data was only available for CsReO4 (Petrov et al, 1980) and T1ReO 4, (Roddatis et al, 1973) and that for KReO4 (Spridonov et al, 1965) was very poor. The IR and ED data both indicate that the structure of these molecular species have C2v symmetry with bidentate coordination of the Rb.…”