Title

Superoxide Does React with Peroxides: Direct Observation of the Haber-Weiss Reaction in the Gas Phase

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

May 2007

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.