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Matthew H V Graneri1, Duncan A Wild1, Allan J McKinley1
1School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia. allan.mckinley@uwa.edu.au.
Abstract:
The interaction between water and phosphine isolated in solid argon matrices has been investigated. Infrared spectra of matrices containing water and phosphine, as well as their deuterium and 18O isotopologues, revealed that a weak hydrogen bonded complex is formed, with an O-H⋯P bonding motif. This was supported by high level ab initio calculations, which predict a binding energy of only 5.1 kJ mol-1 (430 cm-1).
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