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Are oxygen rings (O n ) and their negative ions (O n − ) unstable?
Author(s) -
Sinanoğlu Oktay
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.560360502
Subject(s) - valency , ion , equilateral triangle , observable , ring (chemistry) , oxygen , atomic physics , oxygen atom , chemistry , crystallography , maxima and minima , physics , molecule , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , linguistics , organic chemistry
Oxygen clusters of the equilateral ring types O n and their negative ions O n −are studied by the recently developed pictorial‐topological quantum chemistry method, VIF (valency interaction formulas), of this author. The species are found to be of high energy relative to separated oxygen atoms, the cause being evident from the VIF pictures. The odd n rings should be at local minima but are not likely to have observable negative ions. The even n rings have distortional instabilities, yet their negative ions are more likely to be observed as transients in beam experiments.