Svk. Kumar et al., POSSIBLE REACTION OF ATOMIC NITROGEN WITH SF(X) (X=1-5) AND CF(X) (X=1-3) FRAGMENTS FROM N2-SF6 AND N2-CF4 DISCHARGES, Chemical physics letters, 222(5), 1994, pp. 465-470
Possible reactions of atomic nitrogen with SF(x)(x= 1-5) and CF(x) (x=
1-3) fragments resulting from discharges in N2 and SF6 or CF4 have be
en investigated using the flowing afterglow technique. It is shown tha
t only in N2-SF6 discharges neutral NF is formed, by recording its flu
orescence from the b 1SIGMA+ state of NF, presumably arising from the
excitation transfer from N2(A 3SIGMA(u)+) to NF. It is argued that the
reaction product NF results, in all likelihood, from fluorine abstrac
tion by atomic nitrogen from SF5.