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IT has been shown spectroscopically (the evidence will be published shortly1) that the nitrosonium ion in solution forms a molecular compound with nitrogen dioxide: . As the compound may also be produced from nitric oxide and a solution of nitronium ion, one might also consider representing it thus: . Actually, its spectral properties indicate that it has an intermediate constitution, but one which much more closely resembles structure I than II. Thus the high vibration frequency (2,240 cm.−1), depending on the multiple link in the NO-component of the complex, is displaced only one-seventh of the way from the frequency of the nitrosonium ion (2,300 cm.−1) towards the frequency of nitric oxide (1,880 cm.−1).
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By Goulden and Millen, probably in J. Chem. Soc.
Nature, 147, 512 (1941); Trans. Farad. Soc., 37, 780 (1941); J. Chem. Soc., 245 (1942); 462 (1943).
Cf. Bateman, Hughes and Ingold, J. Chem. Soc., 243 (1944).
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GOULDEN, J., INGOLD, C. & MILLEN, D. The Ion N2O3+. Binding by One-Electron Transfer. Nature 165, 565 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165565a0
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