Dioxidanylium, which is protonated molecular oxygen, or just protonated oxygen, is an ion with formula HO+ 2. It is formed when hydrogen containing substances combust, and exists in the ionosphere, and in plasmas that contain oxygen and hydrogen.[2] Oxidation by O2 in superacids could be by way of the production of protonated molecular oxygen.
Protonated molecular oxygen is of interest in trying to detect dioxygen in space. Because Earth's atmosphere is full of O2, its spectrum from a space object is impossible to observe from the ground. However HO+ 2 should be much more detectable.[4]
The reaction of the trihydrogen cation with dioxygen is approximately thermoneutral:[3]
O2 + H+ 3 → HO+ 2 + H2
When atomic hydrogen, created in an electric discharge is rapidly cooled with oxygen and condensed in solid neon, several reactive ions and molecules are produced. These include HO2 (hydroperoxyl), HOHOH−, H2O(HO), HOHO− as well as HO+ 2.[6] This reaction also forms hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and hydrogen tetroxide (H2O4).[7]
Properties
In the infrared spectrum HO+ 2 the v1 band due to vibrating O–H has a band head at 3016.73cm−1.[8]
↑ Ajello, J. M. (1974). "Formation of HO+ 2 by reaction of metastable O+ 2 ions with H2". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 60 (4): 1211–1213. Bibcode:1974JChPh..60.1211A. doi:10.1063/1.1681184.
↑ Jacox, Marilyn E.; Thompson, Warren E. (24 December 2012). "Infrared Spectra of Products of the Reaction of H Atoms with O2 Trapped in Solid Neon: HO2, HO+ 2, HOHOH−, and H2O(HO)". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 117 (39): 9380–9390. doi:10.1021/jp310849s. PMID23215001.
↑ Levanov, A. V.; Isaikina, O. Ya.; Antipenko, E. E.; Lunin, V. V. (5 August 2014). "Mechanism of the formation of hydrogen tetroxide and peroxide via low-temperature interaction between hydrogen atoms and molecular oxygen". Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 88 (9): 1488–1492. Bibcode:2014RJPCA..88.1488L. doi:10.1134/S0036024414090222. S2CID97672680.
1 2 Kohguchi, Hiroshi; Jusko, Pavol; Yamada, Koichi M. T.; Schlemmer, Stephan; Asvany, Oskar (14 April 2018). "High-resolution infrared spectroscopy of O2H+ in a cryogenic ion trap". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148 (14): 144303. Bibcode:2018JChPh.148n4303K. doi:10.1063/1.5023633. PMID29655341.
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