“…[8,9] Twof urtherw eakb ands at 655 and 494 cm À1 in this previous work were attributed to Au 2 F 6 obtained by evaporation of solid AuF 3 in aK nudsen cell. [8,9] In our spectra, the 655 cm À1 band is not present.I nstead we observed four strong bands at 665, 660, 494, and 492 cm À1 associated with the four strongest stretching bands of Au 2 F 6 (D 2h ): the in-phasea ntisymmetric( b 2u )a nd the out-ofphase symmetric (b 3u )s tretching modes of the terminal F atoms, and the in-phase antisymmetric (b 3u )a nd the out-ofphase symmetric (b 2u )s tretching modes of the bridging F atomsi nd escending order.Ac omparison of the calculated Au 2 F 6 vibrational spectrum with our experimental resultsi s showni nT able S1 in the Supporting Information. Both sets of bands, due to AuF 3 andA u 2 F 6 diminish under UV light (l = 273 nm), whereby the AuF 3 bands are more sensitive to irradiation.…”