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Frontispiece: A Serendipitous Rendezvous with a Four‐Center Two‐Electron Bonded Intermediate in the Aerial Oxidation of Hydrazine
Author(s) -
Banerjee Ambar,
Ganguly Gaurab,
Roy Lisa,
Pathak Shubhrodeep,
Paul Ankan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201680461
Subject(s) - hydrazine (antidepressant) , benzene , electron , oxidation process , crystallography , chemistry , materials science , physics , organic chemistry , chemical engineering , chromatography , quantum mechanics , engineering
Aerial Oxidation of Hydrazine In an attempt to unearth the mechanism for the century old known phenomenon of the degradation of hydrazine by aerial O 2 , we have found that this oxidation process propagates through an unprecedented aromatic 4c–2e bonded intermediate with unusually long N−O bonds. The graphic focuses on the 4c–2e bonded species, it's HOMO, and depicts an ouroboros, a snake biting its own tail, reminiscent of Kekule′s dream leading to the discovery of structure of benzene. For more details see the Communication by A. Paul et al. on page 1216 ff.