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Inside Back Cover: Syntheses and Characterizations of the Mixed Noble‐Gas Compounds, [FKrIIFXeIIF][AsF6]⋅0.5 KrIIF2⋅2 HF, ([KrII2F3][AsF6])2⋅XeIVF4, and XeIVF4⋅KrIIF2 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44/2021)

Abstract

A mixed noble‐gas cation described by Gary J. Schrobilgen and co‐workers in their Research Article on page 23678 was synthesized by reaction of KrF2 and [XeF][AsF6] in liquid HF at −60 °C to form [FKrFXeF][AsF6]⋅0.5 KrF2⋅2 HF. The V‐shaped [FKrFXeF]+ cation, depicted as a space station, is in geosynchronous orbit over Hamilton where [FKrFXeF]+ was created and is being carefully monitored. To the east, decay of a sister station's orbit caused the station to warm, break up, and undergo redox decomposition to [F5Xe][AsF6], XeF4, and Kr as it enters Earth's atmosphere; a rescue shuttle speeds away from the disaster zone.

Authors

Bortolus MR; Mercier HPA; Nguyen B; Schrobilgen GJ

Journal

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 60, No. 44, pp. 23919–23919

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

October 25, 2021

DOI

10.1002/anie.202105391

ISSN

1433-7851

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