Germyl radical

• Formula: GeH₃
• Molecular weight: 75.66
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/GeH3/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: WHYHZFHCWGGCOP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 13765-45-2
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: José A. Martinho Simões

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Individual Reactions

 (g) =  (g) +  (g)

By formula: H₄Ge (g) = H (g) + H₃Ge (g)

 (g) =  (g) +  (g)

By formula: H₃Ge (g) = H (g) + H₂Ge (g)

 (g) +  (g) =  (g) +  (g)

By formula: I (g) + H₄Ge (g) = HI (g) + H₃Ge (g)

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
B - John E. Bartmess

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Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Marilyn E. Jacox

State:   5p ²A₂

State:   X

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 128

Notes

References

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Berkowitz, Ellison, et al., 1994
Berkowitz, J.; Ellison, G.B.; Gutman, D., Three methods to measure RH bond energies, J. Phys. Chem., 1994, 98, 2744. [all data]

Ruscic, Schwarz, et al., 1990
Ruscic, B.; Schwarz, M.; Berkowitz, J., Photoionization studies of GeH_n(n = 2-4), J. Chem. Phys., 1990, 92, 1865. [all data]

Noble and Walsh, 1983
Noble, P.N.; Walsh, R., Kinetics of the gas phase reaction between iodine and monogermane and the bond dissociation energy D(H₃Ge-H), Int. J. Chem. Kinet., 1983, 15, 547. [all data]

Decouzon, Gal, et al., 1993
Decouzon, M.; Gal, J.F.; Gayraud, J.; Maria, P.C.; Vaglio, G.A.; Volpe, P., Fourier Transform-Ion Cyclotron Resonance Study of the Gas-Phase Acidities of Germane and Methylgermane - Bond Dissociation Energy of German, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 1993, 4, 1, 54, https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(93)85042-V . [all data]

Mayer, Gal, et al., 1997
Mayer, P.M.; Gal, J.-F.; Radom, L., The Heats of Formation, Gas-phase Acidities, and Related Thermochemical Properties of the Third-row Hydrides GeH4, AsH3, SeH2, and HBr from G2 ab initio Calculations, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., 1997, 167/168, 689, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-1176(97)00127-4 . [all data]

Reed and Brauman, 1974
Reed, K.J.; Brauman, J.I., Photodetachment of electrons from Group IVa binary hydride anions: The electron affinities of the SiH₃ and GeH₃ radicals, J. Chem. Phys., 1974, 61, 4830. [all data]

Check, Faust, et al., 2001
Check, C.E.; Faust, T.O.; Bailey, J.M.; Wright, B.J.; Gilbert, T.M.; Sunderlin, L.S., Addition of Polarization and Diffuse Functions to the LANL2DZ Basis Set for P-Block Elements, J. Phys. Chem. A,, 2001, 105, 34, 8111, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp011945l . [all data]

Johnson, Tsai, et al., 1988
Johnson, R.D., III; Tsai, B.P.; Hudgens, J.W., The electronic spectrum of the GeH3 radical, J. Chem. Phys., 1988, 89, 8, 4558, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.454796 . [all data]

Wang, Andrews, et al., 2002
Wang, X.; Andrews, L.; Kushto, G.P., Infrared Spectra of the Novel Ge, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2002, 106, 24, 5809, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp020219v . [all data]

Quandt and Hershberger, 1995
Quandt, R.W.; Hershberger, J.F., Kinetics of GeH3 reactions with NO, NO2, and O2, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1995, 233, 5-6, 559, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(94)01510-3 . [all data]

Wang and Andrews, 2003
Wang, X.; Andrews, L., Infrared Spectra of Group 14 Hydrides in Solid Hydrogen: Experimental Observation of PbH, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 21, 6581, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja029862l . [all data]

Jacox, 1994
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1994, 464. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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