Organoargon chemistry

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Organoargon chemistry describes the synthesis and properties of chemical compounds containing a carbon to argon chemical bond.

Very few such compounds are known. The reaction of acetylene dications with argon produced HCCAr2+ in 2008. [1] Reaction of the CF2+3 dication with argon produced ArCF2+2: this reaction is unique to argon among the noble gases. [2]

The compound FArCCH has been theoretically studied and is predicted to be stable. [3] FArCCF might also be stable enough to synthesise and detect, but probably not FArCCArF. [4] Calculations in 2015 suggest that FArCCH and FArCH3 are stable, but not FArCN. [5] FArCC should be kinetically stable, as is also expected of the krypton and xenon (but not helium) analogues. [6] HArC4H (for which the krypton analogue is known) and HArC6H have also been predicted as stable. [7] FArCO+ and ClArCO+ should be metastable and might be possible to characterise under cryogenic conditions. [8] Calculations suggest that HArCCF and HCCArF should be stable, and that HNgCCF molecules should be more stable than HNgCCH (Ng = Ar, Kr, Xe); the corresponding krypton species have been experimentally produced, but not the argon species despite an experimental attempt. HCCNgCN and HCCNgNC (Ng = Ar, Kr, Xe) are likewise computed to be stable, but experimental searches for them have failed. [9]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xenon</span> Chemical element, symbol Xe and atomic number 54

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Krypton difluoride</span> Chemical compound

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2
F+
3
cations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Krypton</span> Chemical element, symbol Kr and atomic number 36

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2
Cl
, whereas complex aggregates form in the solid state in noble gas matrices. The excited state of xenon resembles halogens and it reacts with them to form excited molecular compounds.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diargon</span> Chemical compound

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xenon dibromide</span> Chemical compound

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Superelectrophilic anion</span> Superelectrophilic anions

Superelectrophilic anions are a class of molecular ions that exhibit highly electrophilic reaction behavior despite their overall negative charge. Thus, they are even able to bind the unreactive noble gases or molecular nitrogen at room temperature. The only representatives known so far are the fragment ions of the type [B12X11] derived from the closo-dodecaborate dianions [B12X12]2–. X represents a substituent connected to a boron atom (cf. Fig. 1). For this reason, the following article deals exclusively with superelectrophilic anions of this type.

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