“…The polar-covalentb onds of NgF 2 (Ng = Kr or Xe) render both compounds fluoridei on donors towards strong Lewis acid pentafluorides such as AsF 5 ,S bF 5 ,B iF 5 ,N bF 5 ,T aF 5 ,a nd AuF 5 , and are customarily formulated as [NgF] + and [Ng 2 F 3 ] + salts, for example, [XeF][MF 6 ]( M= As, [1] Sb, [1] Bi, [1] Ru, [2] ), [XeF][M 2 F 11 ] (M = Sb, [1,3,4] Bi, [1] Ir, [5] Nb, [6] Ta [6] ), [XeF] 2 [Ti 9 F 38 ], [7] [XeF] [IrSbF 11 ], [5] [Xe 2 F 3 ][MF 6 ]( M = Au, [8] As, [9] Sb [9] ), [Xe 2 F 3 ][Ti 8 F 33 ], [7] [KrF] [MF 6 ] (M = Au, [8,10] Ta, [11] Pt, [12] As, [13] Sb, [11,13] Bi [13] ), [KrF][M 2 F 11 ]( M= Ta, Nb, Sb), [11] [Kr 2 F 3 ][SbF 6 ]·KrF 2 , [13] [Kr 2 F 3 ] 2 [SbF 6 ] 2 ·KrF 2 , [13] 6 ], [13] [KrF][PF 6 ], [13] and [Kr 2 F 3 ][PF 6 ]·nKrF 2 . [13] Althought heir formulationsi mply completef luoridei on transfer from the noble-gas difluoride to the strong Lewis acid pentafluoride, in reality the Lewis acidic [NgF] + cations and their anionse xist as ion pairs in their salts that interact through NgÀF b ---Mb ridges (F b :b ridge fluorine atom).…”