Gas-phase reactions of the hydroperoxide and performate anions

Article abstract of DOI:10.1139/v86-175

The flowing afterglow technique has been used to study the reactions of HO2^- and HCO3^- in the gas phase.The hydroperoxide ion reacts slowly with CO to form HO^-, and oxidizes CO2, OCS, CS2, NO, SO2, CH3NCS in fast reactions to form CO3^-, CO2S^-, COS2^-, NO2^-, SO3^-, CH3NCO2^-, and CH3NCOS^-, respectively.Reactions of HO2^- with certain amides and esters provide synthetic routes for a number of interesting peracyl anions.One of these, the peroxyformate ion, HCO3^-, reacts with CO and NO in slow oxidation reactions to form the formate ion HCO2^-.It also forms HCO2^- upon reaction with acetone and pivalaldehyde, perhaps by Baeyer-Villiger oxidation.