Noble gases Group electronegativity

Stable noble gas compounds are restricted to those of xenon. Most of these compounds involve bonds between xenon and the most electronegative elements, fluorine and oxygen. More exotic compounds containing Xe—S, Xe—H, and Xe—C bonds can be formed under carefully controlled conditions, for example in solid matrices at liquid nitrogen temperature. The three Lewis structures below are examples of these compounds in which the xenon atom has a steric munber of 5 and trigonal bipyramidal electron group geometry. 

The method has been confined to main-group compounds presumably because of irregularities expected with unsymmetrical charge distributions in transition metal ions. The noble gas compounds remain outside the scope of the method because of the way in which electronegativity is defined (atom compactness relative to interpolated noble atom compactness). The main weakness of the method when applied to fluorides is in the somewhat arbitrary choice of fluorine bond energies. 

True, except for the group 18 noble gas elements, which are not assigned an electronegativity number. The trend is that electronegativity decreases with an increasing number of shells down any one atomic group (vertical column) of the periodic table. 

AU acceptable theories should account for the following facts only the heavier, more readily ionizable noble gases form compounds and only the most electronegative atoms or groups are satisfactory hgands for the noble gases. Two theories of bonding in noble gas compounds are discussed here see also Molecular Orbital Theory and Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Model). 

Ab initio vibrational spectroscopy can have unique advantages as a tool for the identification and characterization of new species. For existing molecules, available empirical force fields may be at hand, and can be used in interpreting the spectra. For new types of molecules, there may be no empirical force fields that one can rely on. A nice example is the novel rare gas molecules of the type of HRgY, where Rg is a noble gas atom, and Y is an electronegative group [128]. Synthesis of these molecules was... 

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