Noble gas chemistry : structure, bonding, and gas-phase chemistry / Felice Grandinetti.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 27, 2018).

PREFACE; PART A: AN OVERVIEW OF NOBLE GAS CHEMISTRY; A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; The Nobel Prizes of 1904; The Birth of a Myth; A Matter of Environment; Chemistry Officially Begin; Moving on Different Roads; ; TYPICAL COMPOUNDS AND BINDING MOTIFS; Complexes with Neutral and Ionic Ligands; Adsorption, Inclusion, and Cage Complexes; Dicoordinated ("Inserted") Compounds; Polycoordinated Compounds; Miscellanea; ; CHEMISTRY IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS; Chemistry in the Bulk Phase; Chemistry under High Pressures; Chemistry in Cold Matrices; Chemistry in Supercritical Fluids; ; CHEMISTRY IN SILICO; The Role of Calculations in Noble-Gas Chemistry; Structure and Stability; Bonding Analysis; Reaction Paths, Kinetics, and Dynamics; Solvation and Environment Effects; ; PART B: GAS-PHASE CHEMISTRY OF THE NOBLE GASES; NEUTRAL SPECIES; A Landscape View; Noble Gas Diatomics and Larger Clusters; Complexes with H2 and HX (X = F, Cl, Br); Complexes with Hydrocarbons; Complexes with H2O and H2S; Complexes with NH3; Complexes with CO, CO2, and COS; Complexes with N2, O2, and N2O; Complexes with Halocompounds; Complexes with Metal Compounds; Inserted Compounds; Cage Compounds; ; IONIC SPECIES; A Landscape View; Ionized Noble Gases; Protonated Noble Gases; Complexes with Metal Cations; Complexes with Metal Anions; Complexes with non-Metal Cations; Complexes with non-Metal Anions; Cage Compounds; Reactions of Singly-Charged Cations; Reactions of Singly-Charged Anions; Reactions involving Doubly-Charged Cations

Authored by one of the world's leading experts in the chemistry of lighter noble gases, this comprehensive monograph fills the need for an up-to-date review of the diverse experimental techniques and theoretical methods currently in practice. After reviewing the experiments breaking the paradigm of "non-reactive" noble gases, the physico-chemical background is introduced. Besides the emphasis on gas phase reactions, the author presents other relevant systems, such as chemistry in the bulk phase, under high pressure, and cold matrices. The discussion of gas-phase chemistry of the noble gases covers neutral and ionic compounds, diatomic molecules, complexes with small molecules and metal compounds, up to large clusters.