Are HBO and BOH electronically stable?

Author: Sobczyk Monika   Anusiewicz Iwona   Skurski Piotr   Simons Jack  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 1362-3028

Source: Molecular Physics, Vol.101, Iss.9, 2003-01, pp. : 1259-1265

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Abstract

The binding of an excess electron to HBO and BOH was studied at the coupled cluster level of theory with single, double and non-iterative triple excitations and with extended basis sets to accommodate the loosely bound excess electron. The bent BOH molecule, with a dipole moment of 2.803 D, binds an electron by 39 cm−1, whereas the linear HBO tautomer possesses a similar dipole moment (2.796 D) yet binds the electron by less than 1 cm−1. It is therefore likely that HBO is not stable when rotational energies are included whereas BOH is for low rotational quantum numbers.