| Literature DB >> 11799238 |
F Cacace1, G de Petris, A Troiani.
Abstract
Tetranitrogen (N4), which has been the subject of great theoretical interest, has been prepared from the N4+ cation and positively detected as a gaseous metastable molecule with a lifetime exceeding 1 microsecond in experiments based on neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry. An examination of the geometry of N4+ and the fragmentation pattern of the (14)N2(15)N2 neutral molecule has revealed that the latter is characterized by an open-chain geometry with two distinct, closely bound N2 units joined by a longer weaker bond.Entities:
Year: 2002 PMID: 11799238 DOI: 10.1126/science.1067681
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728