Structures of the trisulfur oxides S3O and S3O.+: branched rings, not open chains.
Higher-level ab initio calculations showed that the global energy minimum for both S3O and S3O.+ is a branched, three-membered ring, not an open chain form.
Wong
Ming Wah
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Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore117543. chmwmw@nus.edu.sg
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