Rate constants for the gas-phase reactions of germylene with CH3OCH3, CH3OH, CD3OD and D2O at ambient temperature

Abstract

Gas-phase rate constants for the reactions of germylene, GeH₂, with dimethylether (CH₃OCH₃), methanol (CH₃OH), deuterated methanol (CD₃OD), and deuterated water (D₂O), have been determined at ambient temperature (295 K) and total pressures over the range 10–200 Torr of the bath gas SF₆. The second-order rate constants are pressure dependent up to the maximum pressures investigated. The behaviour of GeH₂ with these reactants is very similar to the behaviour observed for silylene, SiH₂. Over the same pressure range the GeH₂ reaction rate constants are smaller than those observed for SiH₂.