Gas phase ion equilibria studies of the proton in hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen sulfide – water mixtures. Stabilities of the hydrogen bonded complexes: H+(H2S)x(H2O)y
The temperature dependence of the equilibria [Formula: see text] was measured for n = 1 to 5 in a pulsed electron beam mass spectrometer with a high pressure ion source. The ΔHn+1,n values obtained were (2,1) 15.4, (3,2) 9.1, (4,3) 8.4, (5,4) 6.7 kcal/mol. Possible structures of the clustered ions are proposed.Addition of water vapor leads to mixed cluster ions such as H+(H2S)x(H2O)y, with x + y from 1 to 6, observed as the ion source temperature was decreased to −100 °C. The temperature dependence of the equilibria for the exchange reactions [Formula: see text]and the association reaction [Formula: see text]were also measured. For all ions measured, the hydration process is energetically more favorable than the solvation by H2S.