On the covalency of silver-fluorine bonds in compounds of silver(I), silver(II) and silver(III)

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 997-1001

  Grochala, Wojciech ^a,b   Egdell, Russ G ^c   Edwards, Peter P ^b   Mazej, Zoran ^d   Žemva, Boris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electronic structure; Fluorine; Photoelectron spectroscopy; Silver

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLUORINE; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER;

COVALENCIES; ELECTRONIC BAND; FLUORINE CHEMICALS; INORGANIC FLUORIDE; SILVERS (I);

SILVER HALIDES;

ANION; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; LIGAND; SILVER DERIVATIVE; SILVER FLUORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; ENERGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0141683492     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200300777     Document Type: Article

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