Abstract

Abstract This article is concerned with the application of the relatively new technique of molecular photoelectron spectroscopy (pes)1,2 to some bonding and stereochemical problems in phosphorus chemistry. No attempt will be made to infer that pes is a deus ex machina capable of functioning as the final arbiter on all controversial bonding problems; rather the general tenor will be one of unbiased examination of a selection of currently unresolved questions with a recently developed tool. In essence the pes method involves the measurement of the various first ionization potentials (IPx) of a neutral molecule in the vapor phase. In the photoionization process the molecule M is ionized to its radical cation M+ by means of a photon of energy hv

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