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Ozonide
Polyatomic ion (O3, charge –1), or cyclic compounds made from ozone and alkenes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ozonide is the polyatomic anion O−3. Cyclic organic compounds formed by the addition of ozone (O3) to an alkene are also called ozonides.
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Ionic ozonides
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Inorganic ozonides[1] are dark red salts. The anion has the bent shape of the ozone molecule.
Inorganic ozonides are formed by burning potassium, rubidium, or caesium in ozone, or by treating the alkali metal hydroxide with ozone; this yields potassium ozonide, rubidium ozonide, and caesium ozonide respectively. They are very sensitive explosives that have to be handled at low temperatures in an inert gas atmosphere. Lithium and sodium ozonide are extremely labile and must be prepared by low-temperature ion exchange starting from CsO3. Sodium ozonide, NaO3, which is prone to decomposition into NaOH and NaO2, was previously thought to be impossible to obtain in pure form.[2] However, with the help of cryptands and methylamine, pure sodium ozonide may be obtained as red crystals isostructural to NaNO2.[3]
Ionic ozonides are being investigated[citation needed] as sources of oxygen in chemical oxygen generators. Tetramethylammonium ozonide, which can be made by a metathesis reaction with caesium ozonide in liquid ammonia, is stable up to 348 K (75 °C):[4]
- CsO3 + [(CH3)4N][O2] → CsO2 + [(CH3)4N][O3]
Alkaline earth metal ozonide compounds have also become known. For instance, magnesium ozonide complexes have been isolated in a low-temperature argon matrix.[5]
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Covalent singly bonded structures
Phosphite ozonides, (RO)3PO3, are used in the production of singlet oxygen. They are made by ozonizing a phosphite ester in dichloromethane at low temperatures, and decompose to yield singlet oxygen and a phosphate ester:[6][7]
- (RO)3P + O3 → (RO)3PO3
- (RO)3PO3 → (RO)3PO + 1O2
Molozonides
Molozonides are formed by the addition reaction between ozone and alkenes. They are rarely isolated during the course of the ozonolysis reaction sequence. Molozonides are unstable and rapidly convert to the trioxolane ring structure with a five-membered C–O–O–C–O ring.[8][9] They usually appear in the form of foul-smelling oily liquids, and rapidly decompose in the presence of water to carbonyl compounds: aldehydes, ketones, peroxides.
Formation of an organic ozonide. The second arrow represents several steps as shown in ozonolysis.
See also
- Ozonolysis
- Ozone cracking
- Superoxide, O−
2 - Oxide, O2−
- Dioxygenyl, O+
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