Talk:Phenylarsine oxide

Structure

I believe the structure of PhAsO currently shown in the article is misleading. Thanks to the double bond rule, species with As-O single bonds are much more stable. The crystal structure of a cyclic tetramer of PhAsO has been reported, alongside structures of some of its complexes with transition metals: I. M. Müller, J. Mühle, Z. anorg. allg. Chem. 1999 625, 336-340 (DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3749(199902)625:2<336::AID-ZAAC336>3.0.CO;2-6).


Skeletal formula	Crystal structure

--Ben (talk) 13:12, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Greenwood and Earnshaw confirms that arsonous anhydrides (as they're apparently called), RAsO, are all polymeric and do not contain As=O double bonds.^[1] --Ben (talk) 11:38, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Article updated: diff. --Ben (talk) 12:14, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.

[1] Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.

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