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It was a common obsession among scientists to synthesize isolable stable compounds of noble gases. Even today, many scientists are attempting to isolate stable chemical compounds of He Ne and Ar. So far there has been no success. It wasn’t until 1962 that the first stable compound of Xenon was created. What is/are the name(s) of the scientist who made this initial breakthrough?
It was a common obsession among scientists to synthesize isolable stable compounds of noble gases. Even today, many scientists are attempting to isolate stable chemical compounds of He Ne and Ar. So far there has been no success. It wasn’t until 1962 that the first stable compound of Xenon was created. What is/are the name(s) of the scientist who made this initial breakthrough?
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The correct option is D Neil Bartlett
Rudolph Hoppe predicted the existence of Xenon fluorides and gave a thermodynamics basis to his predictions. He even managed to synthesize Xenon difluoride by passing an electrical discharge through a sealed mixture of Xenon and Fluorine. Unfortunately, his discovery came a few weeks later than the 1962 breakthrough of Neil Bartlett, who was working out of University of British Columbia.
Bartlett, while teaching a first-year chemistry class, noticed that the first ionization energy of Xenon is very similar to that of O2 molecule. He was already working with Platinum (VI) Fluoride, which he found was able to oxidize O2 into O+2PtF−6.
He immediately tried the same reaction, only this time he used Xe in the place of dioxygen. The rest, as they say, is history! This is the story behind the synthesis of first isolable, stable noble gas compound.
Rudolph Hoppe predicted the existence of Xenon fluorides and gave a thermodynamics basis to his predictions. He even managed to synthesize Xenon difluoride by passing an electrical discharge through a sealed mixture of Xenon and Fluorine. Unfortunately, his discovery came a few weeks later than the 1962 breakthrough of Neil Bartlett, who was working out of University of British Columbia.
Bartlett, while teaching a first-year chemistry class, noticed that the first ionization energy of Xenon is very similar to that of O2 molecule. He was already working with Platinum (VI) Fluoride, which he found was able to oxidize O2 into O+2PtF−6.
He immediately tried the same reaction, only this time he used Xe in the place of dioxygen. The rest, as they say, is history! This is the story behind the synthesis of first isolable, stable noble gas compound.
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