Tetranitrogen is a neutrally charged polynitrogen allotrope of the chemical formula and consists of four nitrogen atoms. The tetranitrogen cation is the positively charged ion, , which is more stable than the neutral tetranitrogen molecule and is thus more studied. Tetranitrogen anions ( and ) have also been reported.
Tetranitrogen is a neutrally charged polynitrogen allotrope of the chemical formula and consists of four nitrogen atoms. The tetranitrogen cation is the positively charged ion, , which is more stable than the neutral tetranitrogen molecule and is thus more studied. Tetranitrogen anions ( and ) have also been reported.
==History== Polynitrogen compounds have been well known and characterized by chemists for many years. The commonplace molecular (diatomic) nitrogen () was first isolated by Daniel Rutherford in 1772 and the azide ion () was discovered by Theodor Curtius in 1890. Discoveries of other related nitrogenous allotypes during the twentieth century include the aromatic molecule pentazole and the radical molecule . However, none of these complexes could be isolated or synthesized on a macroscopic scale like and azide; it was not until 1999 that a large scale synthesis was devised for a third nitrogen allotrope, the pentazenium () cation. This increased interest in polynitrogen compounds in the late twentieth century was due to the advance of computational chemistry which predicted that these types of molecules could be used as potential high-energy-density matter (HEDM) sources.
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