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The Optical F Absorption Band

Nature volume 192, pages 1286–1287 (1961)Cite this article

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IN a recent communication1 a new model for the optical F absorption band was proposed for the alkali metal azides. From a study of irradiation-produced bands in the visible and infra-red region of the absorption spectrum of the azides, it was shown that the anion (N&3bar;) was intimately related to the F absorption band and it was suggested that the F band was caused by a ‘charge-transfer’ complex of the type discussed extensively in the chemical literature, especially by Mulliken2. The ‘charge-transfer’ complex consists of a dative bond being established between one electron donor and an electron acceptor with a concomitant electronic absorption belonging to the complex as a whole.

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  1. HAROLD A. PAPAZIAN: U.S. National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, on leave from the Convair Scientific Research Laboratory, San Diego, California.

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PAPAZIAN, H. The Optical F Absorption Band. Nature 192, 1286–1287 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1921286b0

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