Towards Detection of a Long-lived Protonated Metal Cation: Generation of GeH2+ Using High-Energy Collisions

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2000

Authors

Jackson, Phillip
Diefenbach, Martin
Srinivas, Ragampeta
Schroder, Detlef
Schwarz, Helmut

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Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH

Abstract

A minimal lifetime of microseconds is displayed by the dication GeH2+, which has been detected for the first time as the product of charge-stripping experiments at 8 kV involving [GeH2]+ and O2. Coupled-cluster calculations suggest that XH2+ (X = Si, Ge)

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Keywords: article; chemical binding; electricity; ligand binding; mass spectrometry; molecular interaction; physics Ab initio calculations; Dications; Germanium; Mass spectrometry

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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Journal article

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2037-12-31