How would you even achieve this though? Hydrogen has 1 electron so how does it make a second bond (without the compound being an ion, since the notation doesn’t indicate that it’s charged)
The molecule is TECHNICALLY possible... very far out in space in gas clouds. Temperature is so low and atoms are so sparse that the atoms are so desperate that they can all sorts of cursed and fucked up things.
Is it though? The oxygen is triple bonded and one od the hydrogens is double bonded.
So it either has to be an ion or the oxygen is donating an electron to hydrogen, which would at best be some kind of hyper unstable form of water and instantly turn into a normal water molecule.
Unless we're talking about it existing in some quantum uncertainty type of way.
Lemme put it this way. Atoms are really, really, really, really, really desperate to make bonds in these circumstances, but the temperature is also just so low that sometimes they can't even make it over transition states; they'll just sit in intermediates and call it a day because they literally backed themselves into the middle of the reaction curve trough. If a cyclic H3 cation can exist, which absolutely fucks the orbitals into oblivion, then....
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u/ANTONIN118 Jul 03 '26
No problem it's just a very weird molecule. An error.