Dinitrogen pentoxide thermal decomposition

Anhydrous chromium(III) nitrate may be prepared by the reaction of dinitrogen pentoxide with chromium carbonyl in dry carbon tetrachloride.800 The product has rather low thermal stability, is involatile and decomposition begins at 60 °C. 

One reaction that has been studied in detail is the thermal decomposition of gaseous dinitrogen pentoxide, N2Os, to give the brown gas nitrogen dioxide and molecular oxygen ... 

The thermal decomposition of dinitrogen pentoxide (N2O5) in the gas phase has time-independent stoichiometry... 

The experimental rate equations for some reactions have forms that are equivalent to those expected for unimolecular and bimolecular reactions but they do not correspond to the stoichiometry. For example, in Section 5.3.1 we established that the gas-phase thermal decomposition of dinitrogen pentoxide (Equation 5.1)... 

Pure anhydrous thorium nitrate is difficult to prepare. It is obtained by thermal decomposition of an adduct resulting from the interaction of the tetrahydrate with dinitrogen pentoxide in anhydrous nitric acid [1955FER/KAT]. Other preparative routes involving dinitrogen tetroxide have also been explored [1965SCH/KOE], [1984KUM/TUC]. 

The thermal decomposition of dinitrogen pentoxide in nitrogen dioxide and oxygen (reaction [2.R3]) is a nnique seqnence reaction with a mechanism that consists of the three steps [2.R3a], [2.R3b] and [2.R3c] ... 

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