Issue 6, 2011

Radon hydrides: structure and bonding

Abstract

Quantum chemical calculations, using gradient-correct density functional at the BP86 level in conjunction with TZ2P basis sets, have been carried out for the radon hydrides HRnY (with Y = F, Cl, Br, I, CCH, CN, and NC). The bonding in HRnY is studied using different bond ruptures, establishing the role of those stabilizing (and destabilizing) factors that prevent these species to be dissociated. Although all HRnY systems studied here are bound equilibrium structures, they are metastable species with respect to the HRnY → Rn + HY decomposition channel. However, the HRnY → H + Rn + Y reaction is endothermic. So, these results indicate the possibility to identify the radon hydrides in noble-gas matrices.

Graphical abstract: Radon hydrides: structure and bonding

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Aug 2010
Accepted
21 Oct 2010
First published
19 Nov 2010

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 2222-2227

Radon hydrides: structure and bonding

R. Juarez, C. Zavala-Oseguera, J. O. C. Jimenez-Halla, F. M. Bickelhaupt and G. Merino, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 2222 DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01488E

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