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THIS communication describes the results of some very approximate calculations relating to the electronic structure of XeF2. The treatment is of the four electrons associated with a framework: F+Xe++F+. The various wave functions of the molecule which were tested were constructed from the 2pz orbitals of the two fluorine atoms and the 5pz orbital on the xenon atom, the three atoms being in a straight line along the z-axis. It has been assumed that, for this approximate treatment, other atomic orbitals can be neglected. The excitation of an electron from a 5p to a 6s orbital in a xenon atom requires about 8.25 eV and to a 5d orbital about 10 eV, and from a 2p to a 3s orbital in a fluorine atom about 12 eV1. These are such large energies that the restriction to the p-orbitals seems to be reasonable.
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BILHAM, J., LINNETT, J. Electronic Structure of Xenon Difluoride. Nature 201, 1323 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011323a0
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