Re: H2On for n>2

From: Stephan Bird (stephan.j.bird_at_mad.scientist.comREMOVE)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:03:33 +0000 (UTC)

In news:20050128164010.17775.00000254@mb-m07.news.cs.com,
KellyClarksonTV <kellyclarksontv@cs.com>wrote:
> Is it possible to make a long chain of oxygen molecules with a
> hydrogen at each end? I bet these molecules would blow up like TNT if
> ever made.

H2O3 seems transient at best, see eg
<URL:http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/24/15308> and I can't sem to
find the journal to comment, by H2O4 is also plausible (just) see
Fitzgerald, Lee, Schaefer and Bartlett, _J. Chem. Phys._ *1985*, _83_, 6275.
H2O5 might be possible, see
<URL:http://books.nap.edu/books/0309032482/html/145.html> but as this is OCR
work I wouldn't be sure unelss I'd seen the book.

Funny how the situation is different for the lower chalogens, where H2Sn is
known for n at least to 8 (I think), but increasingly unstable for a
slightly different reason (due to back-biting). What about selenides and
tellurides? - can't find much in Cotton and Wilkinson, I assume the polonium
coumpounds would be even more ionic...

Stephan 

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