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The synthesis of pentafluoronitrosulfane, SF5NO2, is accomplished either by reacting N(SF5)3 with NO2 or by the photolysis of a SF5Br/NO2 mixture using diazo lamps. The product is purified by treatment with CsF and repeated trap-to-trap condensation. The solid compound melts at -78 degrees C, and the extrapolated boiling point is 9 degrees C. SF5NO2 is characterized by 19F, 15N NMR, IR, Raman, and UV spectroscopy as well as by mass spectrometry. The molecular structure of SF5NO2 is determined by gas electron diffraction. The molecule possesses C2v symmetry with the NO2 group staggering the equatorial S-F bonds and an extremely long 1.903(7) Angstroms S-N bond. Calculated bond enthalpies depend strongly on the computational method: 159 (MP2/6-311G++(3df)) and 87 kJ mol(-1) (B3LYP/6-311++G(3df)). The experimental geometry and vibrational spectrum are reproduced reasonably well by quantum chemical calculations.
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The trioxide, CF(3)OC(O)OOOC(O)OCF(3), reacts with NO(2) at 0 degrees C to yield the new peroxynitrate, CF(3)OC(O)OONO(2), which is stable for hours at room temperature. It is spectroscopically characterized and some thermal properties are reported. From the vapor pressure, ln(p/p(0)) = 14.06 - 4565/T, of the liquid above the melting point of -89 degrees C, the extrapolated boiling point is 52 degrees C. CF(3)OC(O)OONO(2) dissociates at higher temperatures and low pressures into the radicals CF(3)OC(O)OO and NO(2) as demonstrated by matrix isolation experiments. The matrix-isolated peroxy radicals consist in a rotameric mixture of trans,trans,trans-CF(3)OC(O)OO and trans,trans,cis-CF(3)OC(O)OO, where trans and cis denote dihedral angles of ca. 180 degrees and 0 degree, respectively, around beta F-C-O-C, beta C-O-C-O, and beta O-C-O-O, with an equilibrium composition dependent on the thermolysis temperature. The radical trans,trans,cis-CF(3)OC(O)OO is found to be ca. 3 kJ mol(-1) higher in enthalpy than trans,trans,trans-CF(3)OC(O)OO. DFT calculations are performed to support the vibrational assignments and to provide structural information about CF(3)OC(O)OONO(2).
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The first spectroscopic evidence for the existence of the CF(3)OSO(3) radical has been obtained from matrix isolation and FT-IR and UV spectroscopic studies. The vibrational frequencies measured are in reasonable agreement with predictions from density functional calculations. Upon visible and UV photolysis of the CF(3)OSO(3) radical, SO(3) is produced and provides experimental support for a new light-driven route for the oxidation of SO(2) to SO(3) assisted by CF(3)O radicals.
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The thermal decomposition of peroxy acetyl nitrate (PAN) is investigated by low pressure flash thermolysis of PAN highly diluted in noble gases and subsequent isolation of the products in noble gas matrices at low temperatures and by density functional computations. The IR spectroscopically observed formation of CH3C(O)OO and H2CCO (ketene) besides NO2, CO2, and HOO implies a unimolecular decay pathway for the thermal decomposition of PAN. The major decomposition reaction of PAN is bond fission of the O-N single bond yielding the peroxy radical. The O-O bond fission pathway is a minor route. In the latter case the primary reaction products undergo secondary reactions whose products are spectroscopically identified. No evidence for rearrangement processes as the formation of methyl nitrate is observed. A detailed mapping of the reaction pathways for primary and secondary reactions using quantum chemical calculations is in good agreement with the experiment and predicts homolytic O-N and O-O bond fissions within the PAN molecule as the lowest energetic primary processes. In addition, the first IR spectroscopic characterization of two rotameric forms for the radical CH3C(O)OO is given.
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The open-chain trioxide CF(3)OC(O)OOOC(O)OCF(3) is synthesised by a photochemical reaction of CF(3)C(O)OC(O)CF(3), CO and O(2) under a low-pressure mercury lamp at -40 degrees C. The isolated trioxide is a colourless solid at -40 degrees C and is characterised by IR, Raman, UV and NMR spectroscopy. The compound is thermally stable up to -30 degrees C and decomposes with a half-life of 1 min at room temperature. Between -15 and +14 degrees C the activation energy for the dissociation is 86.5 kJ mol(-1) (20.7 kcal mol(-1)). Quantum chemical calculations have been performed to support the vibrational assignment and to discuss the existence of rotamers.
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The trifluoromethoxycarbonyl radical CF(3)OCO is formed by low-pressure flash pyrolysis of CF(3)OC(O)OOC(O)OCF(3) or CF(3)OC(O)OOCF(3) in the presence of a high excess of CO and subsequent quenching of the reaction mixture as a CO matrix. The IR and UV spectra are recorded, and a DFT study of CF(3)OCO is presented. According to the quantum chemical calculations, two rotamers should exist with an energy difference between the isomers equal or larger than 12 kJmol(-1). By comparing calculated and observed IR spectra, the presence of the trans form of the CF(3)OCO radical is identified in the matrix. The reaction of CF(3)O radicals with CO leading to CF(3)OCO is calculated to be exothermic by 33.6 kJmol(-1). CF(3)OCO dissociates when irradiated by UV light with lambda<370 nm into CF(3) radicals and CO(2). Experiments show that CF(3) radicals do not react with solid CO to give CF(3)CO.
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CF3OC(O)OO radicals are generated by low-pressure flash thermolysis of CF3OC(O)OOOC(O)OCF3 highly diluted in inert gases and followed by subsequent isolation in an inert-gas matrix at low temperatures. The by-products CO2, COF2, CF3O, and CF3OO are detected. The new peroxy radical is characterized by IR and UV spectroscopy and by its UV photolytic decay which leads to the formation of CF3OO and CO2. According to DFT calculations the exitence of three stable rotamers is predicted and two of them are found experimentally.
