Tetraoxygen

Tetraoxygen (O₄), or oxozone, is a molecule made up of four oxygen atoms. It does not exist in nature anywhere and can only be made under extreme conditions in a lab. The molecule was first created in a lab in 2001.^[1]

Tetraoxygen Media

Ball-and-stick model of a proposed D2d structure for the tetraoxygen molecule, O4.*Structural data from Hernández-Lamoneda, R.; A. Ramírez-Solís (September 2000). "Reactivity and electronic states of O4 along minimum energy paths". Journal of Chemical Physics 113 (10): 4139–4145. DOI:10.1063/1.1288370. Image generated in Accelrys DS Visualizer.
Ball-and-stick model of a proposed D3h structure for the tetraoxygen molecule, O4.*Structural data from Røeggen, I.; E. Wisløff Nilssen (May 1989). "Prediction of a metastable D3h form of tetra oxygen". Chemical Physics Letters 157 (5): 409–414. DOI:10.1016/0009-2614(89)87272-0. Image generated in Accelrys DS Visualizer.

References

↑ Oda, Tatsuki; Alfredo Pasquarello (2004). "Noncollinear magnetism in liquid oxygen: A first-principles molecular dynamics study". Physical Review B. 70 (134402): 1–19. Bibcode:2004PhRvB..70m4402O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.70.134402. hdl:2297/3462. S2CID 123535786.

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[1] Oda, Tatsuki; Alfredo Pasquarello (2004). "Noncollinear magnetism in liquid oxygen: A first-principles molecular dynamics study". Physical Review B. 70 (134402): 1–19. Bibcode:2004PhRvB..70m4402O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.70.134402. hdl:2297/3462. S2CID 123535786.

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