Difluoroboryl radical

• Formula: BF₂
• Molecular weight: 48.808
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/BF2/c2-1-3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OKZIUSOJQLYFSE-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 13842-55-2
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
B - John E. Bartmess

View reactions leading to BF₂⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Marilyn E. Jacox

State:   C

State:   B

State:   A

State:   X

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 89; Jacox, 1998, page 191

Notes

References

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Srivastava, Uy, et al., 1974
Srivastava, R.D.; Uy, O.M.; Farber, M., Experimental determination of heats of formation of negative ions and electron affinities of several boron and aluminum fluorides, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 1, 1974, 70, 1033. [all data]

Lias, Bartmess, et al., 1988
Lias, S.G.; Bartmess, J.E.; Liebman, J.F.; Holmes, J.L.; Levin, R.D.; Mallard, W.G., Gas-phase ion and neutral thermochemistry, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Suppl. 1, 1988, 17, 1-861. [all data]

Farber and Srivastava, 1984
Farber, M.; Srivastava, R.D., Electron and thermal dissociation of BF₃(g), J. Chem. Phys., 1984, 81, 241. [all data]

Uy, Srivastava, et al., 1971
Uy, O.M.; Srivastava, R.D.; Farber, M., Mass spectrometric determination of the heats of formation of gaseous BO₂ BOF₂, High Temp. Sci., 1971, 3, 462. [all data]

Srivastava and Farber, 1971
Srivastava, R.D.; Farber, M., Thermodynamic properties of the B-Cl-F system from mass spectrometer investigations, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1971, 67, 2298. [all data]

Atkinson, Irikura, et al., 1997
Atkinson, D.B.; Irikura, K.K.; Hudgens, J.W., Electronic Structure of the BF, J. Phys. Chem. A, 1997, 101, 11, 2045, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp9623251 . [all data]

Hesser and Dressler, 1967
Hesser, J.E.; Dressler, K., Radiative Lifetimes of Ultraviolet Emission Systems Excited in BF3, CF4, and SiF4, J. Chem. Phys., 1967, 47, 9, 3443, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1712410 . [all data]

Suto, Ye, et al., 1990
Suto, M.; Ye, C.; Lee, L.C., Photoabsorption and fluorescence spectroscopy of BF_{3} in the extreme-vacuum-ultraviolet region, Phys. Rev. A, 1990, 42, 1, 424, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.42.424 . [all data]

Creasey, Hatherly, et al., 1993
Creasey, J.C.; Hatherly, P.A.; Jones, H.M.; Lambert, I.R.; Tuckett, R.P., Vacuum UV fluorescence excitation spectroscopy of BF, Mol. Phys., 1993, 78, 4, 837, https://doi.org/10.1080/00268979300100571 . [all data]

Yang, Ellis, et al., 2011
Yang, J.; Ellis, B.; Clouthier, D.J., The complex spectrum of a "simple" free radical: The A-X band system of the jet-cooled boron difluoride free radical, J. Chem. Phys., 2011, 135, 9, 094305, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3624528 . [all data]

Jacox and Thompson, 1995
Jacox, M.E.; Thompson, W.E., Matrix isolation study of the interaction of excited neon atoms with BF3: Infrared spectra of BF2, BF+2, BF+3, and BF-3, J. Chem. Phys., 1995, 102, 12, 4747, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.469523 . [all data]

Hassanzadeh and Andrews, 1993
Hassanzadeh, P.; Andrews, L., Reaction of halogens with laser-ablated boron: infrared spectra of BXn (X = F, Cl, Br, I; n = 1, 2, 3) in solid argon, J. Phys. Chem., 1993, 97, 19, 4910, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100121a008 . [all data]

Jacox, 1994
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1994, 464. [all data]

Jacox, 1998
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules: supplement A, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 2, 115-393, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556017 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity

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