INFRARED SPECTRA OF ALKALINE EARTH METAL OXIDES AND SUPEROXIDES ISOLATED IN NITROGEN MATRICES
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1974
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Ohio State University
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The matrix isolation technique has been applied to the reaction of alkaline earth metals, Ca, Sr and Ba, with molecular oxygen and ozone. In addition to the azonide ion, the metal oxides and superoxides have been isolated, and their frequencies determined. The frequencies for BaO SrO, and CaO in nitrogen matrices are, respectively, 613, 620, and $707 cm^{-1}$, while the frequencies of the interionic mode of the superoxides $BaO_{2}$, $SrO_{2}$ and $CaO_{2}$ were, respectively, 541, 480 and $497 cm^{-1}$. The pattern of matrix shifts from the gas phase indicates that the ground state of CaO is singlet sigma. We have also observed that a nitrogen matrix stabilizes ionic species much more efficiently than argon matrices, and accordingly, oxygen atom abstraction from ozone occurs much more rapidly in nitrogen matrices.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia