Arsine

• Formula: AsH₃
• Molecular weight: 77.94542
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/AsH3/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: RBFQJDQYXXHULB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 7784-42-1
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Arsenic trihydride; Arsenic hydride; Arseniuretted hydrogen; Arsenous hydride; Hydrogen arsenide; AsH3; Arsenic hydrid; Arsenowodor; Arsenwasserstoff; UN 2188; Arsenic hydride (AsH3)
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

H₂As^- +  =

By formula: H₂As^- + H⁺ = H₃As

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

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

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Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

H₂As^- +  =

By formula: H₂As^- + H⁺ = H₃As

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

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Additional Data

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Takehiko Shimanouchi

Symmetry:   C_3ν     Symmetry Number σ = 3

Source: Shimanouchi, 1972

Notes

References

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Gal, Maria, et al., 1989
Gal, J.-F.; Maria, P.-C.; Decouzon, M., The Gas-Phase Acidity and Bond Dissociation Energies of Hydrogen Telluride, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., 1989, 93, 1, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1176(89)83076-9 . [all data]

Smyth and Brauman, 1972
Smyth, K.C.; Brauman, J.I., Photodetachment of electrons from amide and arsenide ions: The electron affinities of NH₂ and AsH₂., J. Chem. Phys., 1972, 56, 4620. [all data]

Wyatt, Holtz, et al., 1974
Wyatt, R.H.; Holtz, D.; McMahon, T.B.; Beauchamp, J.L., Acidity, basicity, and ion-molecule reactions of arsine in the gas phase by ICR spectroscopy, Inorg. Chem., 1974, 13, 1511. [all data]

Ebinghaus, Kraus, et al., 1964
Ebinghaus, H.; Kraus, K.; Neuert, H.; Muller-Duysing, W., Negative Ionen durch Elecktronenresonanzeinfang in PH₃, AsH₃, und SiH₄, Z. Naturfor., 1964, 19A, 732. [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]

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Potts and Price, 1972
Potts, A.W.; Price, W.C., Photoelectron spectra and valence shell orbital structures of groups V VI hydrides, Proc. R. Soc. London A:, 1972, 326, 181. [all data]

Branton, Frost, et al., 1970
Branton, G.R.; Frost, D.C.; McDowell, C.A.; Stenhouse, I.A., The photoelectron spectra of phosphine and arsine, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1970, 5, 1. [all data]

Price and Passmore, 1963
Price, W.C.; Passmore, T.R., [Title unavailable], Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1963, 35, 232. [all data]

Demuth, 1977
Demuth, R., Photoelektronenspektren von einigen Trihalogensilylphosphanen und -arsanen X₃SiER₂ (X = F, Cl; E = N, P, As; R = H, CH₃), Z. Naturforsch. B:, 1977, 32, 1252. [all data]

Saalfeld and McDowell, 1967
Saalfeld, F.E.; McDowell, M.V., The mass spectra of volatile hydrides. V. Silylarsine, Inorg. Chem., 1967, 6, 96. [all data]

Saalfeld and Svec, 1963
Saalfeld, F.E.; Svec, H.J., The mass spectra of volatile hydrides. I. The monoelemental hydrides of the group IVB and VB elements, Inorg. Chem., 1963, 2, 46. [all data]

Berkowitz, 1988
Berkowitz, J., Photoionization mass spectrometric studies of AsHn(n=1-3), J. Chem. Phys., 1988, 89, 7065. [all data]

Shimanouchi, 1972
Shimanouchi, T., Tables of Molecular Vibrational Frequencies Consolidated Volume I, National Bureau of Standards, 1972, 1-160. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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