The photoelectron spectrum of boron trifluoride

1 January 1970

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications

No. 1,p. 36-37
https://doi.org/10.1039/c29700000036

Abstract

Assignment of the high-resolution photoelectron spectrum of BF₃ shows that the highest occupied orbital is of π(e″) type, rather than σ(a₂′ or e′) as predicted, and that one of the ionic excited states is probably distorted.

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SPECTRUM