ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
A photoionization mass spectrometric study of SbH3 is presented. The adiabatic ionization potential (IP) of SbH3 is ≤9.40±0.02 eV. The lowest energy fragment ion, SbH+ (+H2), has an appearance potential (0 K) of 9.730±0.008 eV, while SbH2+ has an AP of 11.66±0.02 eV. The transient species SbH2 and SbH are generated in situ by reacting F atoms with SbH3. The IP of SbH2, forming SbH2+ (X 1A1), is 8.731±0.012 eV. The IP of SbH (X 3Σ−,0+) to form SbH+ (X 2Π1/2) is probably 8.753±0.009 eV, but certainly 〈8.79 eV. Autoionizing structure in the photoion yield curve of SbH+ (SbH) is interpreted as Rydberg series converging to SbH+ (a 4Σ−), which appears to be split into 1/2 and 3/2 components, with IP's of 10.843±0.011 eV and 10.866±0.011 eV. The difference in IP's (Sb–SbH, SbH–SbH2) appears to conform to the extended Goddard–Harding model, when adjusted for spin–orbit splittings. The derived heats of formation are ΔHf00(SbH)=59.1±0.3 kcal/mol and ΔHf00(SbH2)=52.5±0.6 kcal/mol. These values lead to D0(SbH)=56.4±1.0, D0(HSb–H)=58.3±0.6, D0(H2Sb–H)=67.5±0.5 (in kcal/mol). The differences in successive bond energies, 1.9±1.2 and 9.2±0.8 kcal/mol, depart significantly from the constant value (4.44 kcal/mol) predicted by the Goddard–Harding model. A rationalization is presented, that incorporates relativistic effects. This relativistic picture implies that for BiHn, D0(BiH)(approximately-greater-than)D0(HBi–H), a conclusion for which some experimental evidence exists. However, relativistic ab initio calculations, which agree rather well in their calculated differences in successive bond energies for SbHn, do not predict this reversal in BiHn.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.465937
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