Thallous Ion Dimer Center in Alkali Halide Crystals

F-CENTER ELECTRON QUANTIZATION IN ALKALI HALIDE CRYSTALS Background Alkali halides and alkaline earth halides are strongly ionic compounds

Alkali halides and alkaline earth halides are strongly ionic compounds that solidify as crystals. The name for the alkali elements (Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs) comes from the Arabic word alqili (ashes of the salt-wort plant that was once used as a source of sodium and potassium for making glass from sand). The name for the halogen elements (F, Cl, Br, I—and the rare radioactive element astatine) come...

Clustering of divalent cation-vacancy pairs in alkali halide crystals

The analysis of experimental results of the clustering of divalent cation-vacancy pairs by Unger and Perlman is shown here to be unable to distinguish between their model of dimer formation and the earlier model of' Dryden for trimer formation under the conditions where it has been applied. In general, experimental results appear to correspond to overall third order kinetics in the pre-plateau ...

Single Crystals of Alkali-aromatic Ion Pairs

Alkali halide clusters produced by fast ion impact.

The most abundant geometries and relative stabilities of alkali halide clusters with a (XY)(n) (o) configuration (e.g., LiF, NaCl, KBr) are described. Five main series were obtained: linear, cyclic, cubic, arc strips and nanotubes. The stability analysis shows that higher members are likely to be formed from the lower member of the same series and/or from two building blocks (n = 1, 2). The ene...

Selective recognition of an alkali halide contact ion-pair.

For more than 30 years there has been an active and continued effort to develop synthetic receptors for anions and cations in organic solvents.1 We2 and others3 have shown that if both of the counterions in a target salt have localized charges then the consequent ion-pairing of the salt can dramatically lower receptor/ ion binding affinities and alter binding selectivities. One way to counter t...