Hyponitrite
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Hyponitrite | |
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Oxidoazanylidene | |
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Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Preferred IUPAC name
Hyponitrite | |
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Diazenebis(olate) | |
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Hyponitrite(2-)
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Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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A hyponitrite refers to ionic compounds that contain the hyponitrite ion, N
2O2−
2, ([ON=NO]2−) or to organic hyponitrites (RON=NOR), for example di-tert butyl hyponitrite.
Hyponitrite ion
There are cis and trans forms of the hyponitrite ion.[1] The trans form is generally found in hyponitrite salts such as sodium hyponitrite, Na2N2O2 and silver hyponitrite, Ag2N2O2. The trans-isomer is conventionally prepared by nitrite reduction with sodium amalgam.[2][3] Sodium hyponitrite can be prepared from sodium and nitric oxide by a method described by an earlier method modified with pyridine, from sodium amalgam and sodium nitrite,[citation needed] from alkyl nitrites and hydroxylamine[4] or by electrolysis of sodium nitrite.[5]
The cis-isomer of the sodium salt, NaN2O2, can be prepared by passing nitrous oxide, NO into a solution of sodium metal in liquid ammonia at −50 °C.[1] The cis salt is more reactive than the trans. The trans-hyponitrite ion is a salt of the related trans-hyponitrous acid H2N2O2 ( HON=NOH ), the cis acid is not known.[1]
The hyponitrite ions can act as a bidentate ligand in either bridging or chelating mode. There is a bridging cis-hyponitrite group in the red dinuclear form of nitrosyl pentammine cobalt(III) chloride, [Co(NH3)5NO]Cl2.[6]
Hyponitrite can act as a reducing agent for example reducing iodine, I2,:[6]
- N
2O2−
2 + 3I2 + 3H2O = NO−
3 + NO−
2 + 6HI
Liquid N2O4 oxidises hyponitrites to give Na2N2O3, sodium peroxohyponitrite (containing [ON=NOO]2−).[1]
Hyponitrous acid
Trans-hyponitrous acid forms white crystals that are explosive when dry. It is a weak acid in aqueous solution and decomposes to N2O and water with a half life of 16 days at 25 °C at pH 1–3.[1] As this reaction is not reversible N2O should not be considered as the anhydride of H2N2O2.[1] Hyponitrous acid forms salts, the "acid hyponitrites" containing the [HON=NO]− anion as well as the hyponitrites that contain the [ON=NO]2− anion.[1]
Other nitrogen oxoanions
Other nitrogen oxoanions include
- nitrate, NO−
3 - nitrite, NO−
2 - peroxonitrite, (peroxynitrite), OONO−
- peroxonitrate, HNO−
4 - trioxodinitrate, (hyponitrate), [ON=NO2]2−
- nitroxylate, [O2N−NO2]4−
- orthonitrate NO3−
4 - dinitramide[O2N–N–NO2]−
- nitrosyl hyponitrite[ONNONO]−
Alkyl hyponitrites
Silver hyponitrite reacts with alkyl halides, RX, to form organic hyponitrites, (RON=NOR), e.g. trans-t-butyl hyponitrites.[7] One use of these is as a source of alkoxyl radicals.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Egon Wiberg, Arnold Frederick Holleman (2001) Inorganic Chemistry, Elsevier ISBN 0-12-352651-5
- ^ Addison, C. C.; Gamlen G. A.; Thompson, R. (1952). "70. The ultra-violet absorption spectra of sodium hyponitrite and sodium α-oxyhyponitrite : the analysis of mixtures with sodium nitrite and nitrate". J. Chem. Soc.: 338. doi:10.1039/jr9520000338.
- ^ Neumann, R. C., Jr. Bussey, R. J. (1970). "High pressure studies. V. Activation volumes for combination and diffusion of geminate tert-butoxy radicals". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 92 (8): 2440. doi:10.1021/ja00711a039.
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- ^ a b Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
- ^ Navamoney Arulsamy; D. Scott Bohle; Jerome A. Imonigie; Elizabeth S. Sagan (2000). "Correlation of the Product E/Z Framework Geometry and O/O vs O/N Regioselectivity in the Dialkylation of Hyponitrite". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 (23): 5539–5549. doi:10.1021/ja994261o.
- ^ Craig A. Ogle; Steven W. Martin; Michael P. Dziobak; Marek W. Urban; G. David Mendenhall (1983). "Decomposition rates, synthesis, and spectral properties of a series of alkyl hyponitrites". J. Org. Chem. 48 (21): 3728–3733. doi:10.1021/jo00169a023.