Letter: On the Structure of C2O2+• Generated from C3O2+•
Letter: On the Structure of C2O2+• Generated from C3O2+•
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信件:关于由 C3O2+• 生成的 C2O2+• 的结构
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
John L. Holmes
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D. Dawson;H. Chen;John L. Holmes
Dear Sir The linear and quasi-linear oxides of carbon, carbon monoxide, CO, carbon dioxide, CO 2, and carbon suboxide, C3O2, are stable gaseous compounds at room temperature and pressure due to their molecular closed shell electronic ground state, X ~ Σ(g). In contrast, linear carbonyl carbene, C2O, and ethenedione, C 2O2, have an open shell electronic ground state, X 3Σ–(g), and are believed to be stable, though very reactive molecules. Carbonyl carbene has been characterised theoretically 2 nd experimentally via optical spectroscopy 3,4 and ethenedione has been studied theoretically via b initio molecular orbital calculations. The structure of neutral OCCO is (quasi-)linear (i.e. non-cyclic), O=C=C=O, which when excited can fragment into CO + CO and C 2O + O. Regardless of the precursor, m/z 28 CO+• is always the base peak in artifactfree metastable ion (MI), collision-induced dissociation (CID) and neutralisation–reionisation (NR) mass spectra of C2O2. The presence of neutral C 2O2 as a stable intermediate, possessing a lifetime (about 1 μs) of the order of the transit time between the neutralisation collision cell and the reionisation collision cell in neutralisation–reionisation (NR) mass spectrometry, has been suggested in a recent study. 8 On the basis of the observation of NR peaks corresponding to C 2, C2O and CO2 it was proposed that viable neutral C 2O2[X ~ , a ~ , A ~ , ...] (ground and/or excited state) was produced in the neutralisation of C 2O2 ion by Xe collision gas, only to then undergo completely dissociative reionisation by O 2 collision gas, yielding no detectable recovery signal at m/z 56, C2O2. It was stated, 8 that the above interpretations must remain inconclusive with regard to the stability of the neutral C 2O2 molecule. The production of transient C 2O2 by electron transfer to the C2O2 ion was considered unproven, not least because the dissociation behaviour of C 2O2 is unknown. Correlation rules can be used to predict the direct unimolecular dissociation products and these will be discussed later. In contrast, Sulzle et al. had discounted the possible generation of stable neutral C 2O2 during the neutralisation step in an NRMS study of C 2O2 ion generated from squaric acid. On the basis of the calculated difference in geometry between the trans-bent C 2O2[X 2Πu(2Bu)] ion and the linear C2O2[X 3Σg–] neutral, it was proposed that all C2O2 ions should undergo neutralisation to a dissociative (i.e. Σg) state of the neutral C 2O2 molecule (presumably the C2O2[b 1Σg+] state) leading to a barrier-free dissociation into CO[ X 1Σ+(g)] + CO[X 1Σ+(g)]. The presence of peaks in their NR spectra assigned to C 2 and C2O, otherwise structure indicative fragments, were dismissed as having other explanations for their possible geneses. 9