Silyl radical

• Formula: H₃Si
• Molecular weight: 31.1093
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/H3Si/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OLRJXMHANKMLTD-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 13765-44-1
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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
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard

View reactions leading to H₃Si⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

H₂Si^- +  =

By formula: H₂Si^- + H⁺ = H₃Si

References

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Wetzel, Salomon, et al., 1989
Wetzel, D.M.; Salomon, K.E.; Berger, S.; Brauman, J.I., Gas-Phase Acidities of Organosilanes and Electron Affinities of Organosilyl Radicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1989, 111, 11, 3835, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00193a013 . [all data]

Nimlos and Ellison, 1986
Nimlos, M.R.; Ellison, G.B., Photoelectron spectroscopy of SiH₃^- and SiD₃^-, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1986, 108, 6522. [all data]

Bartmess, Scott, et al., 1979
Bartmess, J.E.; Scott, J.A.; McIver, R.T., Jr., The gas phase acidity scale from methanol to phenol, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1979, 101, 6047. [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]

Nagano, Murthy, et al., 1993
Nagano, Y.; Murthy, S.; Beauchamp, J.L., Thermochemical properties and gas-phase ion chemistry of phenylsilane investigated by FT-ICR spectrometry. Identification of parent- and fragment-ion structural isomers by their specific reactivities, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 10805. [all data]

Johnson III, Tsai, et al., 1989
Johnson III, R.D.; Tsai, B.P.; Hudgens, J.W., Multiphoton ionization of SiH₃ and SID₃ radicals: Electronic spectra, vibrational analyses of the ground and Rydberg states, and ionization potentials, J. Chem. Phys., 1989, 91, 3340. [all data]

Boo and Armentrout, 1987
Boo, B.H.; Armentrout, P.B., Reaction of silicon ion (2P) with silane (SiH₄, SiD₄) heats of formation of SiHn, SiHn⁺ (n=1,2,3), and Si₂Hn⁺ (n=0,1,2,3) remarkable isotope exchange reaction involving four hydrogen shifts, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1987, 109, 3549. [all data]

Berkowitz, Greene, et al., 1987
Berkowitz, J.; Greene, J.P.; Cho, H.; Ruscic, B., Photoionization mass spectrometric studies of SiH_n (n=1-4), J. Chem. Phys., 1987, 86, 1235. [all data]

Ding, Cassidy, et al., 1985
Ding, A.; Cassidy, R.; Cordis, L.; Lampe, F., The photoionization spectra of effusing and supersonic molecular beams of Mmnosilane, J. Chem. Phys., 1985, 83, 3426. [all data]

Dyke, Jonathan, et al., 1983
Dyke, J.M.; Jonathan, N.; Morris, A.; Ridha, A.; Winter, M.J., Vacuum ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of transient species. XVII. The SiH₃ (X2A1) radical, Chem. Phys., 1983, 81, 481. [all data]

Kasdan, Herbst, et al., 1975
Kasdan, A.; Herbst, E.; Lineberger, W.C., Laser photoelectron spectrometry of the negative ions of silicon and its hydrides, J. Chem. Phys., 1975, 62, 541. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  ΔfH(+) ion,0K	Enthalpy of formation of positive ion at 0K
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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