摘要:
Bromine trioxide was prepared in KClO4 crystals doped with BrO−3 by reaction with radiation-induced holes at ∼30 K. The observed ESR spectrum bears no resemblance to that ascribed earlier to BrO3, produced analogously in KNO3. While BrO3 is structurally analogous to ClO3, having a large spin density on the bromine atom, the electron spin in BrO*3, the novel form of bromine trioxide, occupies a nonbonding orbital on the oxygen atoms. This finding is attributed to an unusually small spacing of the upper electronic levels which allows perturbations from the actual crystalline environment to govern the electronic ground state of bromine trioxide. An ESR signal associated with self-trapped holes in x-irradiated KBrO3 is consistent with the species BrO*3, which may be the ‘‘normal’’ form of bromine trioxide.