Carbon trioxide can be produced, for example, in the drift zone of a negative corona discharge by reactions between carbon dioxide (CO2) and the atomic oxygen (O) created from molecular oxygen by free electrons in the plasma.[2] Another reported method is photolysis of ozone O3 dissolved in liquid CO2, or in CO2/SF6 mixtures at −45 °C, irradiated with light of 253.7 nm. The formation of CO3 is inferred but it appears to decay spontaneously by the route
2 CO3 → 2 CO2 + O2
with a lifetime much shorter than 1 minute.[3] Carbon trioxide can be made by blowing ozone at dry ice (solid CO2), and it has also been detected in reactions between carbon monoxide (CO) and molecular oxygen (O2). Along with the ground state C2visomer,[4] the first spectroscopic detection of the D3h isomer was in electron-irradiated ices of carbon dioxide.[5]
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DeMore W. B.; Jacobsen C. W. (1969). "Formation of carbon trioxide in the photolysis of ozone in liquid carbon dioxide". Journal of Physical Chemistry. 73 (9): 2935–2938. doi:10.1021/j100843a026.
^Bennett, Chris J.; Jamieson, C.; Mebel, Alexander M.; Kaiser, Ralf I. (2004). "Untangling the formation of the cyclic carbon trioxide isomer in low temperature carbon dioxide ices". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 6 (4): 735. Bibcode:2004PCCP....6..735B. doi:10.1039/b315626p. S2CID51769127.
^Jamieson, Corey S.; Mebel, Alexander M.; Kaiser, Ralf I. (2006). "Identification of the D3h Isomer of Carbon Trioxide (CO3) and Its Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry". ChemPhysChem. 7 (12): 2508–2513. doi:10.1002/cphc.200600390. PMID17029325.
Further reading
Sobek V.; Skalný J. D. (1993). "A simple model of processes in the drift region of negative corona discharge in a mixture of air with halocarbons". Czechoslovak Journal of Physics. 43 (8): 807. Bibcode:1993CzJPh..43..807S. doi:10.1007/BF01589802. S2CID120356317.
Moll N. G.; Clutter D. R.; Thompson W. E. (1966). "Carbonate: Its Production, Infrared Spectrum, and Structure Studied in a Matrix of Solid CO2". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 45 (12): 4469–4481. Bibcode:1966JChPh..45.4469M. doi:10.1063/1.1727526.
Gimarc B. M.; Chou T. S. (1968). "Geometry and Electronic Structure of Carbon Trioxide". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 49 (9): 4043–4047. Bibcode:1968JChPh..49.4043G. doi:10.1063/1.1670715.
DeMore W. B.; Dede C. (1970). "Pressure dependence of carbon trioxide formation in the gas-phase reaction of O(1D) with carbon dioxide". Journal of Physical Chemistry. 74 (13): 2621–2625. doi:10.1021/j100707a006.