Praktische Rhetorik

Proton inventory of the transition state for ionic migration of the aqueous hydrogen ion

“…Short Grotthus chains involving one water molecule are common in crystals18 and several involving more than one water molecule are also known. 19 One referee suggested another possible mechanism in which the slow step involves the rotation of an H30+ that comes "loose" from its solvation shell, followed by fast proton transfer. This idea is similar to the mechanism proposed by Conway, Bockris, and Linton,20 opposed by Eigen21 because their treatment contained some questionable approximations, among which was the assumption that the normal rotation of water molecules in the absence of the electric field of the H30+ ion was too slow to explain the high mobility of the hydrogen ion.…”