Tetraoxygen

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O4 is also a subclass of O-class stars.

The tetraoxygen molecule (O4), also called oxozone was first predicted in 1924 by Gilbert N. Lewis, who proposed it as an explanation for the failure of liquid oxygen to obey Curie's law.[1] Today it seems Lewis was off, but not by far: computer simulations indicate that although there are no stable O4 molecules in liquid oxygen, O2 molecules do tend to associate in pairs with antiparallel spins, forming transient O4 units.[2] In 1999, researchers thought that solid oxygen existed in its ε-phase (at pressures above 10 GPa) as O4.[3] However, in 2006, it was shown by X-ray crystallography that this stable phase known as ε oxygen or red oxygen is in fact O8.[4] Nevertheless, tetraoxygen has been detected as a short-lived chemical species in mass spectrometry experiments.[5]

[edit] Free molecule

Theoretical calculations have predicted the existence of metastable O4 molecules with two different shapes: a "puckered" square like cyclobutane,[6] and a "pinwheel" with three oxygen atoms surrounding a central one in a trigonal planar formation similar to Boron Trifloride.[7]
D2d structure
D3h structure

In 2001, a team at the University of Rome La Sapienza conducted a neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry experiment to investigate the structure of free O4 molecules.[5] Their results did not agree with either of the two proposed molecular structures, but they did agree with a complex between two O2 molecules, one in the ground state and the other in a specific excited state.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lewis, Gilbert N. (September 1924). "The Magnetism of Oxygen and the Molecule O2". Journal of the American Chemical Society 46 (9): 2027–2032. doi:10.1021/ja01674a008. 
  2. ^ Oda, Tatsuki; Alfredo Pasquarello (October 2004). "Noncollinear magnetism in liquid oxygen: A first-principles molecular dynamics study" (abstract). Physical Review B 70 (134402): 1–19. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.70.134402. 
  3. ^ Gorelli, Federico A.; Lorenzo Ulivi, Mario Santoro, and Roberto Bini (November 1999). "The ε Phase of Solid Oxygen: Evidence of an O4 Molecule Lattice" (abstract). Physical Review Letters 83 (20): 4093–4096. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4093. 
  4. ^ Lars F. Lundegaard, Gunnar Weck, Malcolm I. McMahon, Serge Desgreniers and Paul Loubeyre (2006). "Observation of an O8 molecular lattice in the phase of solid oxygen". Nature 443: 201–204. doi:10.1038/nature05174. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 
  5. ^ a b Cacace, Fulvio; Giulia de Petris, and Anna Troiani (October 2001). "Experimental Detection of Tetraoxygen". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 40 (21): 4062–4065. doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20011105)40:21<4062::AID-ANIE4062>3.0.CO;2-X. 
  6. ^ Hernández-Lamoneda, R.; A. Ramírez-Solís (September 2000). "Reactivity and electronic states of O4 along minimum energy paths". Journal of Chemical Physics 113 (10): 4139–4145. doi:10.1063/1.1288370. 
  7. ^ Røeggen, I.; E. Wisløff Nilssen (May 1989). "Prediction of a metastable D3h form of tetra oxygen". Chemical Physics Letters 157 (5): 409–414. doi:10.1016/0009-2614(89)87272-0. 

[edit] See also

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O2

Tetraoxygen
O4
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