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SUBMITTER: Jackson AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5954976 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical science 20151016 2
The unusual chemistry of sulfur is illustrated by the tendency for catenation. Sulfur forms a range of open and closed S <sub><i>n</i></sub> species in the gas phase, which has led to speculation on the composition of sulfur vapours as a function of temperature and pressure for over a century. Unlike elemental gases such as O<sub>2</sub> and N<sub>2</sub>, there is no widely accepted thermodynamic potential for sulfur. Here we combine a first-principles global structure search for the low energy ...[more]