Oxygen ozonides

How would you obtain a sample of pure ozone Account for the conditions used in your method of preparation. What is the arrangement of oxygen atoms in an ozonide and what evidence would you cite in support of the structure you suggest ... 

The relevant properties of peroxide and superoxide salts are given in Table 4 (see Peroxides and peroxide compounds, inorganic). Potassium peroxide is difficult to prepare and lithium superoxide is very unstable. The ozonides, MO3, of the alkah metals contain a very high percentage of oxygen, but are only stable below room temperature (see Ozone). 

Oxygen Compounds. Although hydrogen peroxide is unreactive toward ozone at room temperature, hydroperoxyl ion reacts rapidly (39). The ozonide ion, after protonation, decomposes to hydroxyl radicals and oxygen. Hydroxyl ions react at a moderate rate with ozone (k = 70). 

The unstable ammonium ozonide [12161 -20-5] NH O, prepared at low temperatures by reaction of ozone withHquid ammonia, decomposes rapidly at room temperature to NH NO, oxygen, and water (51). Tetrametbylammonium ozonide [78657-29-1] also has been prepared. 

Organic peroxides can be classified according to peroxide stmcture. There are seven principal classes hydroperoxides dialkyl peroxides a-oxygen substitued alkyl hydroperoxides and dialkyl peroxides primary and secondary ozonides peroxyacids diacyl peroxides (acyl and organosulfonyl peroxides) and alkyl peroxyesters (peroxycarboxylates, peroxysulfonates, and peroxyphosphates). 

Low -molecular-weight ozonides are explosive and are theretore not isolated. Instead, the ozonide is immediately treated with a reducing agent such as zinc metal in acetic acid to convert it to carbonyl compounds. The net result of the ozonolysis/reduction sequence is that the C=C bond is cleaved and oxygen becomes doubly bonded to each of the original alkene carbons. If an alkene with a letrasubstituted double bond is ozonized, two ketone fragments result if an alkene with a trisubstituted double bond is ozonized, one ketone and one aldehyde result and so on. 

The principal organic reaction of ozone is its addition to the carbon-carbon double bond of an ethylenic compd. The resulting ozone-olefin addition compd is known as an ozonide. Decompn of the ozonide gives a mixt of oxygenated products containing carbonyl compds and acids. 

Because ozonides are active oxygen compds, they can be used as oxidizing agents, polymerization catalysts, bleaching agents, and germicides. 

The low value of the expl power of oxygen atoms bonded with carbon and hydrogen atoms in such a group as COOH had already been stressed by Stettbacher (Ref 2), who also pointed out that an exception is provided by peroxides and ozonides which form exothermic bonds that considerably enhance expl performance... 

The oxidation number of oxygen is —2 in most of its compounds. Exceptions are its compounds with fluorine (in which case, the previous statement takes precedence) and its occurrence as peroxides (022-), superoxides (02 ), and ozonides (03 ). 

Due to the retractive forces in stretched mbber, the aldehyde and zwitterion fragments are separated at the molecular-relaxation rate. Therefore, the ozonides and peroxides form at sites remote from the initial cleavage, and underlying mbber chains are exposed to ozone. These unstable ozonides and polymeric peroxides cleave to a variety of oxygenated products, such as acids, esters, ketones, and aldehydes, and also expose new mbber chains to the effects of ozone. The net result is that when mbber chains are cleaved, they retract in the direction of the stress and expose underlying unsaturation. Continuation of this process results in the formation of the characteristic ozone cracks. It should be noted that in the case of butadiene mbbers a small amount of cross-linking occurs during ozonation. This is considered to be due to the reaction between the biradical of the carbonyl oxide and the double bonds of the butadiene mbber [47]. 

A number of the bicyclic ozonides 12 were prepared in good yield (45-65 %) by diimide reduction of furan singlet oxygenates (Eq. 9) 23>. Again, low temperature were essential because the furan endoperoxides readily transform into 1,2-diacyl-ethylenes. Of course, the bicyclic ozonides 12 can alternatively be prepared via ozonolysis of the appropriate 1,2-disubstituted cyclobutene 24). 

Attempts to get C and H analyses by combustion of the ozonides of 2-butene, 2-pentene and 2-hexene caused violent explosions, though oxygen analyses were uneventful. 

Reaction of caesium or potassium ozonides with water or aqueous acids is violent, producing oxygen and flashes of light. 

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