Me. Jacox et al., MATRIX-ISOLATION STUDY OF THE INTERACTION OF EXCITED NEON ATOMS WITH SIF4 - INFRARED-SPECTRA OF SIF3-( AND SIF3), The Journal of chemical physics, 103(13), 1995, pp. 5308-5314
When a Ne:SiF4 mixture is codeposited at approximately 5 K with a beam
of excited neon atoms, the infrared spectrum of the resulting deposit
includes absorptions of SiF3, together with new absorptions which hav
e been assigned to SiF3+ and SiF3-. The results of ab initio calculati
ons of the structure and ground-state vibrational fundamentals of thes
e two ion species are presented, and support the proposed assignments.