Xenon dichloride

Xenon arc lamp Xenon compounds Xenon dichloride Xenon difluoride... 

Xenon dichloride [13780-38-6], XeCl, and xenon(II) chloroduoride [73378-52-6], XeClE, have been prepared by photochemical and electric discharge methods and have been examined at low temperatures by matrix-isolation techniques (39,40). The dichloride has a linear stmcture like that of XeE2. Evidence for the existence of XeCl2, XeBr2, and xenon tetrachloride [14989-42-5], XeCl, has been obtained from Mn ssbauer studies (41,42). Owing to thermal chemical instabiUties, no dihaUde other than the binary duorides has been prepared in macroscopic amounts. 

There is some evidence for the existence of xenon dichloride, XeCl2, made by the action of electric discharges on a mixture of Xe, F2 and CC14. 

Binary Compounds. Three fluorides, PtF [13455-15-7], PtF [37782-184-8], and platinum hexafluoride [13693-05-5], PtF, are well documented. The last is a powerful oxidi2ing agent and can oxidi2e dioxygen and xenon (235). Two chlorides exist, platiaum dichloride [10025-65-7],... 

This method is convenient because the reagents are easier to handle compared with molecular chlorine or fluorine. Trimethylbismuth dichloride is obtainable by using sulfuryl chloride at low temperatures [94AG(E)976]. However, an attempt to synthesize trimethylbismuth difluoride by using xenon difluoride has failed. 

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Other xenon halides include the dichloride, the tetrachloride, and the dibromide, but these are not particularly stable. Solutions of xenon trioxide, called xenic acid, are excellent oxidizing agents, as is the octahedral perxenate anion, XeOg. Krypton difluoride, a few nitrogen compounds of both xenon and krypton, and radon difluoride have also been prepared but are not well-characterized. 

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