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Nitronium ion

Polyatomic ion

Polyatomic ion

The nitronium ion, , is a cation. It is an onium ion because its nitrogen atom has +1 charge, similar to ammonium ion . It is created by the removal of an electron from the paramagnetic nitrogen dioxide molecule , or the protonation of nitric acid (with removal of ).

It is stable enough to exist in normal conditions, but it is generally reactive and used extensively as an electrophile in the nitration of other substances. The ion is generated in situ for this purpose by mixing concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid according to the equilibrium:

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Structure

The nitronium ion is isoelectronic with carbon dioxide and has the same linear structure and bond angle of 180°. For this reason it has a similar vibrational spectrum to carbon dioxide. Historically, the nitronium ion was detected by Raman spectroscopy, because its symmetric stretch is Raman-active but infrared-inactive. The Raman-active symmetrical stretch was first used to identify the ion in nitrating mixtures.

Salts

A few stable nitronium salts with anions of weak nucleophilicity can be isolated. These include nitronium perchlorate , nitronium tetrafluoroborate , nitronium hexafluorophosphate , nitronium hexafluoroarsenate , and nitronium hexafluoroantimonate . These are all very hygroscopic compounds.

The solid form of dinitrogen pentoxide, , actually consists of nitronium and nitrate ions, so it is an ionic compound, nitronium nitrate , not a molecular solid. However, dinitrogen pentoxide in liquid or gaseous state is molecular and does not contain nitronium ions.

References

References

  1. "dioxidonitrogen(1+) (CHEBI:29424)". European Bioinformatics Institute.
  2. {{Greenwood&Earnshaw2nd
  3. (1946). "Spectroscopic Identification of the Nitronium Ion". Nature.
  4. Kenneth Schofield. (1980). "Aromatic nitration". CUP Archive.
  5. (1988). "The equilibrium constant for N2O5⇄NO2+NO3: Absolute determination by direct measurement from 243 to 397 K". The Journal of Chemical Physics.
  6. [[F. Albert Cotton. F. A. Cotton]] and G.Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 5th edition (1988), Wiley, p.333
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