Pentoxide ionization

Solutions of dinitrogen pentoxide in nitric acid or sulphuric acid exhibit absorptions in the Raman spectrum at 1050 and 1400 cm with intensities proportional to the stoichiometric concentration of dinitrogen pentoxide, showing that in these media the ionization of dinitrogen pentoxide is complete. Concentrated solutions in water (mole fraction of NgOg > 0-5) show some ionization to nitrate and nitronium ion. Dinitrogen pentoxide is not ionized in solutions in carbon tetrachloride, chloroform or nitromethane. ... 

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In the solid state, dinitrogen pentoxide is ionic, existing as N02+N03 and sometimes called nitronium nitrate. The same is true of dinitrogen pentoxide in polar solvents like nitric acid where complete ionization to nitronium and nitrate ions is observed. In the vapour phase, and in nonpolar solvents, a covalent structure is observed. This dichotomy of behavior in both physical state and in solution means that no single nitrating agent is as diverse and versatile as nitrogen pentoxide. 

Dinitrogen pentoxide has been used for aromatic nitration in other media and some are notable. While a solution of dinitrogen pentoxide in carbon tetrachloride will not convert 1,3-dinitrobenzene to 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, a solution in concentrated sulfuric acid at 160 °C will effect this conversion. In this medium dinitrogen pentoxide is fully ionized to nitronium and nitrate ions. Solutions of dinitrogen pentoxide in liquid sulfur trioxide have been used for the nitration of some deactivated pyridines. ... 

Dinitrogen pentoxide is not ionized in solutions in carbon tetrachloride, chloroform or nitromethane.10... 

Nitric acid, metallic nitrates, and dinitrogen pentoxide are converted to nitronium hydrogen sulfate, which is a fully ionized strong base (36, 45, 47, 58, 75) ... 

The pentoxide is insoluble in sulfuric acid at room temperature, and dissolves only slowly even at temperatures near the boiling point of the acid. Arsenious oxide, on the other hand, is moderately, if rather slowly, soluble in sulfuric acid. Cryoscopic and conductimetric measurements (4I) have shown that it ionizes in an analogous manner to N2O3, forming AsO HSO4,... 

Acetonitrile (bp 82°) is another polar solvent, which promotes the ionization of compounds such as the triphenylmethyl halides. It is also a very useful solvent for the recrystallization of polar compounds such as dicarboxylic acids. It is easily purified by heating to reflux with and then distilling from phosphorous pentoxide. Much of the commercial acetonitrile is dried by azeotropic distillation with benzene. If it is to be used as the solvent for ultraviolet spectroscopy, either one must obtain material which has not been treated with benzene, or the benzene may be removed by azeotropic distillation with water and drying with phosphorus pentoxide. The presence of benzene is indicated by weak absorption around 260 m/ and strong tail absorption beginning at about 220 m/i.. 

From this discussion it can be seen that the usefulness of sulfuric acid in a nitrating mixture depends upon the fact that sulfuric acid provides an ideal balance between the ionization of nitric acid into the ion N02 and the subsequent removal of a proton from one of the intermediates. That it does not act simply as an absorbent for the water formed during the reaction has been shown by the fact that the introduction of phosphorus pentoxide into the reaction mixture causes no change in the reaction rate.396... 

Un-ionized derivatives of the condensed phosphoric acids are also prepared thermally, using various proportions of phosphorus pentoxide with the smallest member of the desired family of compounds " e.g. ... 

The i factors of ethyl nitrate, nitrogen pentoxide, and nitrogen tetroxide in sulfuric acid are 5, 6, and 6, indicating that these substances ionize to form nitryl ions according to the equations... 

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