On the structure of liquid antimony pentafluoride
The liquid structure of antimony pentafluoride at room temperature has been investigated using neutron and high-energy X-ray diffraction and subsequently modelled using Empirical Potential structure refinement. The neutron diffraction measurements show that each antimony centre is surrounded by 6 fl...
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| author | McLain, SE Soper, A Molaison, J Benmore, C Dolgos, MR Yarger, J Turner, J |
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| description | The liquid structure of antimony pentafluoride at room temperature has been investigated using neutron and high-energy X-ray diffraction and subsequently modelled using Empirical Potential structure refinement. The neutron diffraction measurements show that each antimony centre is surrounded by 6 fluorine atoms; four at a non-bridging distance of 1.86 ± 0.03 Å and two bridging fluorines at a distance of 2.03 ± 0.06 Å. The X-ray data show an additional peak at 3.93 ± 0.03 Å attributed to antimony-antimony contacts. The diffraction data were fit to three models; cis-monomer, isolated tetramer and cis-linked chains. The X-ray data rule out the cis-monomer model but good fits are obtained for the isolated tetramer and cis-linked chain models. It is argued that the liquid is comprised of chains of cis-linked tetrameric building blocks when these data and modelling results are considered in light of NMR measurements. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:10998a05-6c74-4216-b5dc-7c960c070ab62022-03-26T09:57:16ZOn the structure of liquid antimony pentafluorideJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:10998a05-6c74-4216-b5dc-7c960c070ab6EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2007McLain, SESoper, AMolaison, JBenmore, CDolgos, MRYarger, JTurner, JThe liquid structure of antimony pentafluoride at room temperature has been investigated using neutron and high-energy X-ray diffraction and subsequently modelled using Empirical Potential structure refinement. The neutron diffraction measurements show that each antimony centre is surrounded by 6 fluorine atoms; four at a non-bridging distance of 1.86 ± 0.03 Å and two bridging fluorines at a distance of 2.03 ± 0.06 Å. The X-ray data show an additional peak at 3.93 ± 0.03 Å attributed to antimony-antimony contacts. The diffraction data were fit to three models; cis-monomer, isolated tetramer and cis-linked chains. The X-ray data rule out the cis-monomer model but good fits are obtained for the isolated tetramer and cis-linked chain models. It is argued that the liquid is comprised of chains of cis-linked tetrameric building blocks when these data and modelling results are considered in light of NMR measurements. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | McLain, SE Soper, A Molaison, J Benmore, C Dolgos, MR Yarger, J Turner, J On the structure of liquid antimony pentafluoride |
| title | On the structure of liquid antimony pentafluoride |
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