Abstract
Three of the less common oxides of carbon, OC 2O, OC 3O and C 2O, have been studied by tandem mass spectrometric methods. Neutralization—reionization (NR) mass spectrometry provided evidence for the possible generation of (hitherto unobserved) stable OC 2O molecules having a lifetime of at least 1 μs. Ionized OC 3O and C 2O both produced stable neutral species in their NR mass spectra in keeping with their known chemistry. The heats of formation of OC 2O ·+ and C 2O ·+ were measured to be 940 ± 10 and 1412 ± 5 kJ mol −1, the latter in good agreement with earlier work.
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