Applications of Fluorine and Highly Electronegative Fluorinated Ligands to the Syntheses of High-Oxidation-State Derivatives of the Main-Group and Transition Metal Elements

拟议的研究计划侧重于合成和结构无机氟化学领域的基础研究，包括主族高活性氟化物和氧化物氟化物，以及处于最高氧化态的重金属过渡金属元素。拟议中的化学通常处于可能的边缘，将提供挑战、肯定和扩展现代化学键概念的新化合物。将调查的具体领域包括惰性气体化学、溴、氙气、汞和铱的最高氧化态，以及硫-氮-氟化物化学。在稀有气体的情况下，寻找新的氙碳、氙氮和氪氧键是研究计划的重要目标。许多目标化合物是“超价”的，即它们是高度配位的，并且大大超过了与经典的“八重规则”有关的价层中的4个电子对。本研究项目中涉及的大多数氟化合物，如惰性气体化合物KrF

The proposed research program focuses on fundamental research in the field of synthetic and structural inorganic fluorine chemistry, encompassing highly reactive fluorides and oxide fluorides of the main-group and heavy transition metal elements in their highest oxidation states. The proposed chemistry, often at the edge of what is possible, will provide new compounds that challenge, affirm and extend modern ideas of chemical bonding. Among the specific areas that will be investigated are noble-gas chemistry, the highest oxidation states of bromine, xenon, mercury and iridium, and sulfur-nitrogen-fluoride chemistry. In the case of the noble gases, the quest for new xenon–carbon, xenon– (and krypton–) nitrogen and krypton–oxygen bonds are important objectives of the research program. Many of the targeted compounds are “hypervalent”, i.e., they are highly coordinated and greatly exceed the 4 electron pairs in the valence shell that are associated with the classic "octet rule". Most of the fluorine compounds dealt with in this research program, such as the noble-gas compounds KrF