Timeline for Nitrogen dioxide dimerization
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| Aug 16, 2014 at 14:01 | vote | accept | EJC | ||
| Aug 16, 2014 at 13:49 | comment | added | ron | Good question! Remember that NO only dimerizes at low temperatures. Apparently molecular oxygen does similar things. Since molecular oxygen has 2 unpaired electrons, maybe we would expect a polymer or a cyclic oligomer? It turns out that one form of solid oxygen actually exists as $\ce{O_8}$. Read about "red oxygen" or $\ce{O_8}$ in this Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_oxygen#Red_oxygen Here's a link to an article where $\ce{O_4}$ is reported onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/… | |
| Aug 16, 2014 at 8:46 | comment | added | EJC | Why doesn't oxygen for a dimer then? | |
| Aug 15, 2014 at 22:25 | history | answered | ron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |