Xenon bond dissociation energies

The lowest excited state of the iodine atom has an energy of 0.9 eV [92]. However, the second lowest excited level is 6.95 eV. The addition of this latter value to the energy necessary for the appropriate bond dissociation in CF3I [93], of 2.32 eV, (see Table 14), requires that the minimum energy of the initial xenon electronically excited state to be 9.27 eV. This means that the higher 1 s, as well as all the 2p, levels could participate in this dissociative reaction, thereby markedly decreasing the yield of Xel formed. 

How strong are these solvent interactions with unsaturated fragments such as Cr(CO)s This question has been addressed by photoacoustical calorimetric measurements [29,30]. As expected, traditional Lewis bases coordinate more strongly than do the alkanes but the alkane chromium bond is apparently worth about 10 kcal mol L Time resolved IR spectral experiments have demonstrated an interaction of similar magnitude between W(CO)5 and alkanes in the gas phase [31]. Notably, even xenon has been shown in both solution [32] and gas phase [33] experiments to bind with a dissociation energy of 8 kcal mol . ... 

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