Bromine dioxide and selenium tetraiodide, two elusive main group compounds

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Konrad Seppelt
• Subject Area: Inorganic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: from 2015 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290343429

BrO2 has been detected by various methods but isolations have failed so far. SeI4 is essentially unknown. Theoretical considerations indicate the instability and different structural behaviours in comparison to homologues.Isolation of these two compounds at low temperatures and their characterization is the aim of this project.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants