Oxygen monofluoride

• Formula: FO
• Molecular weight: 34.9978
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/FO/c1-2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: FXOFAYKVTOLJTJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 12061-70-0
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias
L - Sharon G. Lias

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

View reactions leading to FO⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

References

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

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Gilles, Polak, et al., 1992
Gilles, M.K.; Polak, M.L.; Lineberger, W.C., Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Halogen Oxide Anions FO-, ClO-, BrO-, IO-, OClO-, and OIO-, J. Chem. Phys., 1992, 96, 11, 8012, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.462352 . [all data]

Alekseev, Volkov, et al., 1984
Alekseev, V.I.; Volkov, V.M.; Fedorova, L.I.; Baluev, A.V., Mass Spectrometric Study of the Ionization of an Oxygen Difluoride Molecule, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSR Ser. Khim. 1302, 1984. [all data]

Thynne and MacNeil, 1970
Thynne, J.C.J.; MacNeil, K.A.G., Ionisation and dissociation of carbonyl fluoride and trifluoromethyl hypofluorite by electron impact, Intern. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1970, 5, 95. [all data]

Zhang, Kuo, et al., 1994
Zhang, Z.; Kuo, S.-C.; Klemm, R.B.; Monks, P.S.; Stief, L.J., A discharge flow-photoionization mass spectrometric study of the FO (X 2i) radical. Photoionization efficiency spectrum and ionization energy, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1994, 229, 377. [all data]

Dyke, Jonathan, et al., 1980
Dyke, J.M.; Jonathan, N.; Mills, J.D.; Morris, A., Vacuum ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of transient species Part 12. TheFO(X²π₁) radical, Mol. Phys., 1980, 40, 1177. [all data]

Berkowitz, Dehmer, et al., 1973
Berkowitz, J.; Dehmer, P.M.; Chupka, W.A., Photoionization mass spectrometry of F₂O, J. Chem. Phys., 1973, 59, 925. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy

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