ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

The Search for Selenium Hydrogen Bonding

Abstract: Hydrogen bonding is ubiquitous and plays a fundamental role across multiple disciplines such as chemistry, biology and physics. Since its identification more than a century ago (Latimer and Rodebush, 1920), oxygen and nitrogen have been the most studied hydrogen bonding donors and acceptors, while the exploration of hydrogen bonding with other group VI elements, such as sulfur and selenium, is lacking and often overlooked. Here, we request 4 days on SANDALS to study the structure of the simplest selenol, methaneselenol, to unambiguously determine the existence of selenium hydrogen bonding in the liquid state (never been reported in the liquid), while providing a complete picture of the system in comparison with the results from previous allocated beamtime (RB2220561) on the solution structure of methanethiol (MeSH) and MeSH/MeOH mixtures.

Public release date: 02 March 2028

Principal Investigator: Dr Camilla Di Mino
Experimenter: Dr Adam Clancy
Local Contact: Dr Tom Headen
Experimenter: Professor Neal Skipper
Experimenter: Dr Andrea Sella
Experimenter: Professor Christoph Salzmann

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2300083-1

Parent DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2300083

ISIS Experiment Number: RB2300083

Part Number: 1

Date of Experiment: 26 February 2025

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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