Caesium oxide It is a good electron emitter; however, its high vapor pressure limits its usefulness. Elemental magnesium reduces caesium oxide to elemental caesium, forming magnesium oxide as a side-product: CsO is hygroscopic, forming the corrosive CsOH on contact with water. Caesium oxide Caesium oxide (IUPAC name) or cesium oxide describes inorganic compounds composed of caesium and oxygen. The following binary (containing only Cs and O) oxides of caesium are known: CsO, CsO, CsO, and CsO. Both the oxide and suboxides are brightly coloured. The species CsO forms yellow-orange hexagonal crystals. Caesium oxide is used in photocathodes to detect infrared signals in
Dihydrogen complex Dihydrogen complex Dihydrogen complexes are coordination complexes containing intact H as a ligand. The prototypical complex is W(CO)(PCy)(H). This class of compounds represent intermediates in metal-catalyzed reactions involving hydrogen. Hundreds of dihydrogen complexes have been reported. Most examples are cationic transition metals complexes with octahedral geometry. Upon complexation, the H−H bond is extended to 0.81–0.82 Å as indicated by neutron diffraction, about a 10% extension relative to the H−H bond in free H. Some complexes containing multiple hydrogen ligands, i.e. polyhydrides, also exhibit short H−H contacts. It has been suggested that distances < 1.00 Å indicates significant dihydrogen character, where