Is SH4, the simplest 10-S-4 sulfurane, observable?
2000 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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- Authors
- Wittkopp, A.; Prall, M.; Schreiner, Peter R.; Schaefer, H. F.
- Abstract
- The kinetic stability of SH4 was investigated theoretically with the coupled cluster ansatz. The two possible modes of decomposition into SH2 and H-2 through either a C-2v or a C-1 transition structure (TS) were investigated using intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC) computations; orbital interactions along the reaction paths were analyzed. The two dissociation modes are due to differences in the electron delocalization in the TSs. While the C-2v TS is bonded rather covalently by a three center-four electron (3c-4e) interaction which is lost in a strictly synchronous way (two electrons occupy the same orbital at a time along the reaction coordinate), the bonding orbital in the C-1 TS is merely occupied by a single electron. Surprisingly, this highly polarized TS has a lower barrier. Computations at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVQZ level of theory show that the zero-point corrected enthalpy (Delta H(0)double dagger) of the C-1 TS is 16 kcal mol(-1) above the C-4v symmetric ground state; the barrier along the C-2v path is 40 kcal mol(-1). The overall exothermicity for the dissociation into SH2 and H-2 was estimated to be Delta H-0 = -76 kcal mol(-1). The fundamental IR absorptions of SH4 (obtained by scaling the computed harmonic vibrational frequencies taken from the CCSD(T)/cc-pVQZ level of theory) are 1432 and 2037 cm(-1).
- Issue Date
- 2000
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Royal Soc Chemistry
- Journal
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- ISSN
- 1463-9084; 1463-9076