Low-temperature infrared studies of some acid–base reactions

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 2077-2088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Huston ◽  
I. C. Hisatsune ◽  
Julian Heicklen

Low-temperature infrared spectroscopy has been used to examine the systems NH3 + H2O, NH3 + HCl, H2O + HCl, NH3 + HNO3, and NH2OH + HNO3. Hydrogen-bonding in the solid states greatly reduces the reactivities in these systems. Temperatures where reactions initiated in the systems NH3(s) + HCl(g), HNO3(s) + NH3(g), H2O(s) + HCl(g), and NH2OH(s) + HNO3(s) were, respectively, −145, −130, −127, and −125 °C. Infrared spectra of 2NH3•H2O, NH3•H2O, NH4Cl•3NH3, NH4NO3•3NH3, NH4NO3•2HNO3, NH2OH2+NO3−, NH3OH+NO3−, H3O+Cl−, H5O2+Cl−, and H5O2+Cl−•H2O have been identified in these reaction systems.


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (22) ◽  
pp. 3594-3600 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bicca de Alencastro ◽  
C. Sandorfy

The infrared spectra of several aliphatic thiols and of benzenethiol were measured between 2400 and 2700 cm−1, and 4800 and 5300 cm−1 in a 1:1 mixture of CCl3F and C2F4Br2, at temperatures ranging from 20 to −190 °C. Dimerization takes place at low temperatures and more highly associated species also appear. Free S—H groups are present in the solutions as well as in the pure liquids, even at the lowest temperatures. The association is of the [Formula: see text] type in aliphatic thiols; both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] bonds are found in the case of benzenethiol and α-toluenethiol. Hydrogen bonding has little effect on the anharmonicity of the S—H stretching vibration.





1981 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Painter ◽  
M. M. Coleman ◽  
R. W. Snyder ◽  
O. Mahajan ◽  
M. Komatsu ◽  
...  

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has been used to characterize the oxidation of a coking coal. The results demonstrate that the most important initial products of oxidation are carbonyl and carboxylic acid groups. Bands associated with carbon-oxygen single bonds, as in ethers or phenols, do not become prominent until the later stages of the oxidative process. Upon reaction with potassium in tetrahydrofuran a number of changes in the spectrum of both the oxidized and unoxidized coal become apparent. This reagent cannot be considered specific for cleavage of ether bonds, but can also lead to products usually associated with air oxidation.



1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 3328-3353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osvald Knop ◽  
Wolfgang J. Westerhaus ◽  
Michael Falk ◽  
Werner Massa

The ir spectra of the isotopic probe ion NH3D+ have been used to obtain information about the symmetry, orientation, and hydrogen-bonding involvement of the ammonium ion, between 10 K and room temperature, in NH4F, NH4HF2, (NH4)2[Cr(H2O)6]F5, NH4PF6, (NH4)3SiF7, the elpasolites (NH4)2BFeF6 (B = Na, K) and CS2NH4MF6 (M = Fe, Al), and the cryolites (NH4)3MF6 (M = Al, Cr, Fe). Several of these fluorides exhibit low-temperature transitions, some of which are evident in the probe-ion spectra. It is shown that relating the isotopically isolated ND stretching and bending frequencies to the [Formula: see text] distances and to the coordination numbers of the ammonium ion reveals important trends in the dependence of the behaviour of the ion on its immediate environment in the crystal. A detailed discussion is presented of the effect of ionic size and the geometric tolerance factor t on the transition temperatures of cubic cryolite, perovskite, and elpasolite halides, as well as on the anisotropy of the principal thermal amplitudes of the halogen atom in such compounds. The relation between Ttr and the frequency of the ND stretching absorption of NH3D+ in the ammonium representatives of these classes of halides is also explored.



2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Jarmelo ◽  
I. Reva ◽  
M. Rozenberg ◽  
P.R. Carey ◽  
R. Fausto


Infrared spectra are reported of methanol, ethanol, propan-2-ol, 2-methylpropan-2-ol, 2, 2, 2-trifluoroethanol, 2, 2, 3, 3-tetrafluoropropan-1-ol and 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-hexafluoropropan-2-ol in the vapour phase in a 1 m path-length cell at pressures up to the s. v. p. of the alcohol. Also reported are 40 m path-length vapour and argon matrix spectra of trifluoroethanol. Dimer absorptions are identified for all the alkanols and for trifluoroethanol, and some estimates of ∆ H provided. Trifluoroethanol exhibits a striking series of sum-and-difference bands of the OH stretch with other fundamentals, 14 summation modes being observed extending in frequency to over 5000 cm -1 and involving most of the fundamentals below 1500 cm -1 . Other fluoroalcohols with fluorines substituted on β carbon atoms exhibit similar sum-and-difference modes. The alkanols exhibit only one such pair of bands due to the OH stretch plus or minus the OH torsion, and this provides a convenient method of measuring the torsional frequencies. The different behaviour of the fluoroalcohols is attributed to intramolecular hydrogen bonding.



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