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Neil Bartlett (15 September 1932 – 5 August 2008) was a British chemist who specialized in fluorine and compounds containing fluorine, and became famous for creating the first noble gas compounds. He taught chemistry at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley .
Xenon hexafluoroplatinate is the product of the reaction of platinum hexafluoride with xenon, in an experiment that proved the chemical reactivity of the noble gases.This experiment was performed by Neil Bartlett at the University of British Columbia, who formulated the product as "Xe + [PtF 6] −", although subsequent work suggests that Bartlett's product was probably a salt mixture and did ...
The first published report, in June 1962, of a noble gas compound was by Neil Bartlett, who noticed that the highly oxidising compound platinum hexafluoride ionised O 2 to O + 2. As the ionisation energy of O 2 to O + 2 (1165 kJ mol −1 ) is nearly equal to the ionisation energy of Xe to Xe + (1170 kJ mol −1 ), he tried the reaction of Xe ...
Xenon reversibly complexes gaseous M(CO) 5, where M=Cr, Mo, or W. p-block metals also bind noble gases: XeBeO has been observed spectroscopically and both XeBeS and FXeBO are predicted stable. [27] The compound Xe 2 Sb 2 F 11 contains a Xe–Xe bond, the longest element-element bond known (308.71 pm = 3.0871 Å). [28]
2, whose first ionization potential is 12.2 eV, led Neil Bartlett to correctly surmise that it might be able to oxidise xenon (first ionization potential 12.13 eV). This led to the discovery of xenon hexafluoroplatinate, [2] which proved that the noble gases, previously thought to be inert, are able to form chemical compounds.
The noble gases have also been referred to as inert gases, but this label is deprecated as many noble gas compounds are now known. [6] Rare gases is another term that was used, [ 7 ] but this is also inaccurate because argon forms a fairly considerable part (0.94% by volume, 1.3% by mass) of the Earth's atmosphere due to decay of radioactive ...
The noble gases are generally non-reactive because they have filled electronic shells. Until the 1960s, no chemical bond with a noble gas was known. In 1962, Neil Bartlett found that platinum hexafluoride reacts with xenon.
Neil Bartlett synthesizes xenon hexafluoroplatinate, showing for the first time that the noble gases can form chemical compounds. [129] 1962 George Olah observes carbocations via superacid reactions. [130] 1964 Richard R. Ernst performs experiments that will lead to the development of the technique of Fourier transform NMR.