Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Details

This article was originally published as Blanksby, SJ, Ellison, GB, Bierbaum, VM and Kato, S, Superoxide Does React with Peroxides: Direct Observation of the Haber-Weiss Reaction in the Gas Phase, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 46, 2007, 4948-4950.

Abstract

Reactions of superoxide with hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxides are observed as efficient processes in the gas phase and yield products – including the ozonide anion – that are consistent with the one-electron reduction of the peroxide.