Koschel D., Kuhn P. (eds). Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry - 8th edition. F - Fluorine. Supplement Volume 4

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH, 1986 - 427 p.The present volume, "Fluorine" Suppt. Vol. 4, covers the oxygen compounds of fluorine and the binary fluorine-nitrogen compounds.
In the first part "Fluorine and Oxygen", oxygen fluorides OnF m are described in the order of decreasing F: 0 ratio. It finishes with a description of hyperfluorous acid HOF. The second part "Fluorine and Nitrogen" deals with the binary fluorine-nitrogen compounds. They are subdivided on the basis of the number of nitrogen atoms per molecule. Thus, species such as NFt, NF3, NF2, and NF are considered first followed by the dinitrogen and trinitrogen fluorides N2F4, N2F2, and N3F and related ions.
The other compounds under the heading "Fluorine and Nitrogen", the fluorine-nitrogenhydrogen and the fluorine-nitrogen-oxygen(-hydrogen) compounds, will be covered in "Fluorine" Suppt. Vol. 5.
Intense development in the field of inorganic fluorine-oxygen and fluorine"nitrogen chemistry began in the middle of the 1950s when in less than a decade numerous previously unknown compounds and a great deal of new information were produced. Research in this field was strongly stimulated by interest in these compounds as potential high-energy oxidizers for rocket fuels. That is also the reason why much of the pertinent chemical information is found in patent Iiterature and U.S. Government contractor reports.
Volume 4 continues the series of supplement volumes on fluorine. The first supplement volume, "Fluor" Erg.-Bd. 1, 1959, to the main volume "Fluor" 1926, describes eiemental fluorine and the compounds with hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen and covers the Iiterature through 1950. The rapid progress in inorganic fluorine chemistry since the 1950s is documented in the more recent volumes "Fluorine" Suppt. Vol. 2, 1980, and "Fluorine" Suppt. Vol. 3, 1982, which deal with the element and the fluorine-hydrogen compounds, respectively.Fluorine and Oxygen
Fluorine and Nitrogen