Mercapto radical

• Formula: HS
• Molecular weight: 33.073
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/HS/h1H Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: PXQLVRUNWNTZOS-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 13940-21-1
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Mercapto-d
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Gas Phase Heat Capacity (Shomate Equation)

C_p° = A + B*t + C*t² + D*t³ + E/t²
H° − H°_298.15= A*t + B*t²/2 + C*t³/3 + D*t⁴/4 − E/t + F − H
S° = A*ln(t) + B*t + C*t²/2 + D*t³/3 − E/(2*t²) + G
    C_p = heat capacity (J/mol*K)
    H° = standard enthalpy (kJ/mol)
    S° = standard entropy (J/mol*K)
    t = temperature (K) / 1000.

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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

S^- +  =

By formula: S^- + H⁺ = HS

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

View reactions leading to HS⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

S^- +  =

By formula: S^- + H⁺ = HS

Anion protonation reactions

HS^- +  =

By formula: HS^- + H⁺ = H₂S

Constants of diatomic molecules

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Data compiled by: Klaus P. Huber and Gerhard H. Herzberg

Data collected through July, 1977

Notes

References

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Rempala, K.; Ervin, K.M., Collisional activation of the Endoergic Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reaction S-(2P) + H2 - SH- + H, J. Chem. Phys., 2000, 112, 10, 4579, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.481016 . [all data]

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Shiell, Hu, et al., 1900
Shiell, R.C.; Hu, X.K.; Hu, Q.J.; Hepburn, J.W., A determination of the bond dissociation energy (D-0(H-SH)): Threshold ion-pair production spectroscopy (TIPPS) of a triatomic molecule, J. Phys. Chem. A, 1900, 104, 19, 4339-4342, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp000025k . [all data]

Gurvich, Veyts, et al.
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Eyler, J.R.; Atkinson, G.H., Dye laser-induced photodetachment of electrons from SH- studied by ICR spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1974, 28, 217. [all data]

Steiner, 1968
Steiner, B., Photodetachment of Electrons From SH^-, J. Chem. Phys., 1968, 49, 11, 5097, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1670004 . [all data]

Refaey, 1976
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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]

Page and Goode, 1969
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Milan, Buma, et al., 1996
Milan, J.B.; Buma, W.J.; deLange, C.A., Zero-kinetic-energy pulsed-field ionization spectroscopy of the a ¹δ state of SH⁺ (CD⁺), J. Chem. Phys., 1996, 104, 521. [all data]

Hsu, Baldwin, et al., 1994
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Dunlavey, Dyke, et al., 1979
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Morrow, 1966
Morrow, B.A., The absorption spectrum of SH and SD in the vacuum ultraviolet, Can. J. Phys., 1966, 44, 2447. [all data]

Palmer and Lossing, 1962
Palmer, T.F.; Lossing, F.P., Free radicals by mass spectrometry. XXVIII. The HS, CH₃S, and phenyl-S radicals: ionization potentials and heats of formation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1962, 84, 4661. [all data]

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Pathak and Palmer, 1969
Pathak, C.M.; Palmer, H.B., Chemical excitation of the A²Σ⁺-X²Π system of SH and SD, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 1969, 32, 157. [all data]

Acquista and Schoen, 1970
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Meerts and Dymanus, 1974
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Meerts and Dymanus, 1975
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McDonald, 1963
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Uehara, H.; Morino, Y., Gas-phase EPR spectra of rotationally excited states of SH and ClO free radicals, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 1970, 36, 158. [all data]

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Ramsay, D.A., Absorption spectra of SH and SD produced by flash photolysis of H₂S and D₂S, J. Chem. Phys., 1952, 20, 1920. [all data]

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Miller, T.A., Sulfur-33 hyperfine interactions in the gas-phase electron resonance spectra of ²Π SH and ¹Δ SO, J. Chem. Phys., 1971, 54, 1658. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  S°gas,1 bar	Entropy of gas at standard conditions (1 bar)
  ΔfH(+) ion,0K	Enthalpy of formation of positive ion at 0K
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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