The binding energies of trialkylgermanium cations to water molecules studied by high pressure mass spectrometry

Abstract

The binding energies of H2O to R3Ge+ have been measured using pulsed electron beam, high pressure mass spectrometry. van't Hoff plots have yielded thermodynamic data (ΔH0, ΔS0) for the reactions, [5], [Formula: see text]and [7], [Formula: see text]. [Formula: see text] decreases with increasing size of R (CH3 28.6 ± 0.5 kcal mol−1, C4H9 20.6 ± 1.2 kcal mol−1) while [Formula: see text] shows much less change (34.4 ± 0.9 to 30.3 ± 2.8 cal K−1 mol−1). Comparison with data for (CH3)3M+ (M = Si, Sn) shows that binding energy decreases with increasing size of M.