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Chem Commun (Camb). 2002 Aug 21;(16):1728-9. doi: 10.1039/b203585e.

HgH4 and HgH6: further candidates for high-valent mercury compounds.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Pekka Pyykkö, Michal Straka, Michael Patzschke

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O.B. 55 (A. I. Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. [email protected]

PMID: 12196970 DOI: 10.1039/b203585e

Abstract

Mercury tetrahydride (D4h) is calculated to have similar bond lengths and vibrational frequencies as the already known HgH2 and to lie energetically 200 kJ mol-1 above HgH2 + H2, in a local well, about 40 kJ mol-1 below a transition state.

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