THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM AND STRUCTURE OF CHLORYL FLUORIDE
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1973
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Ohio State University
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The microwave spectra of three isotopic species of chloryl fluoride, $FClO_{2}$, have been measured. They have yielded values for the rotational constants, centrifugal distortion constants, nuclear quadrupole coupling constants and the dipole moment. The molecule has been shown to have $C_{s}$ symmetry, and a pyramidal configuration, with chlorine at the apex of the pyramid; the bond lengths and angles were obtained. The structural parameters, quadrupole coupling constants, dipole moment and force field are consistent with a bonding scheme in which a fluorine 2p atomic orbital overlaps with the highest occupied orbital of $ClO_{2}$; there is considerable withdrawal of electron density from this singly occupied antibonding orbital of $ClO_{2}$ toward the fluorine atom.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia Vancouver 8, British Columbia