The Quest for Exotic Oxidation States in Main-Group Cations and Transition-Metal Fluorides

The Quest for Exotic Oxidation States in Main-Group Cations and Transition-Metal Fluorides aims to synthesize and determine crystal structures of a novel oxygen cation and a novel nitrogen oxide cation, as well as the unprecedented high-oxidation-state transition metal fluorides stabilized by high pressure in a DAC. Transition-metal fluorides with new and unusual oxidation states would be synthesized by an innovative approach – laser-heating-induced decomposition of the respective fluoridometallate salts of pentafluoridoxenon(1+) cation. This proposal is composed of two parts: i) a selection of low risk targets with strong preliminary data and ii) an exploratory high-risk–high-gain proof-of-concept research, that would, even if partially successful, open a new direction and provide strong case for further investigation and beamtime proposals.