As shown by ab initio calculations, the transition states for pseudorotation of PH5, PH3F2, and dioxaphospholene approximate the square pyramidal structures envisaged by Berry in his pseudorotation mechanism, but some of the transition vectors show displacements in accord with a ‘turnstyle’ process.
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