Noble‐Gas Compounds

Abstract Noble‐gas reactivity was discovered in 1962 when Neil Bartlett showed that xenon gas was oxidized by PtF 6 to XePtF 6 . Pursuant to his discovery, numerous xenon and krypton compounds were synthesized in macroscopic quantities. Among the noble‐gas elements, xenon has the most extensive chemistry, and can possess formal oxidation states of 0, +½, +2, +4, +6 and +8 in its compounds by forming fluorides, oxides and oxide fluorides as …