Carbonium ion

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In chemistry, carbonium ion is any cation that has a pentavalent carbon atom,[1][2] The name carbonium may also be used for the simplest member of the class, properly called methanium (CH+
5
), where the five valences are filled with hydrogen atoms.[3]

The next simplest carbonium ions after methanium have two carbons. Ethanium or protonated acetylene C
2
H+
3
and ethenium H are usually classified in other families. The ethanium ion C
2
H+
7
has been studied as an extremely rarefied gas by infrared spectroscopy.[4]

In older literature the name "carbonium ion" was used for what is today called carbenium. The current definitions were proposed by the chemist George Andrew Olah in 1972.[1] and are now widely accepted.

A stable carbonium ion is the complex penta(triphenylphosphine gold(I))methanium (Ph
3
PAu
)
5
C+
, produced by Schmidbauer and others.[5]

Preparation

Carbonium ions can be obtained by treating alkanes with very strong acids.[6] Industrially, they are formed in the refining of petroleum during primary thermal cracking.[7]

See also

References

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  2. IUPAC, Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book") (1997). Online corrected version:  (2006–) "Carbonium ion".
  3. Doo Wan Boo and Yuan T. Lee (1995), "Infrared spectroscopy of the molecular hydrogen solvated carbonium ions, CH+
    5
    (H
    2
    )n (n=1–6)". J. Chem. Phys. volume 103, page 520; doi:10.1063/1.470138
  4. L. I. Yeh, J. M. Price, and Y. T. Lee (1989), "Infrared spectroscopy of the pentacoordinated carbonium ion C
    2
    H+
    7
    ". Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 111, pages 5591-5604. doi:10.1021/ja00197a015
  5. George A. Olah (1998), "Onium Ions". John Wiley & Sons, 509 pages. ISBN 9780471148777
  6. J. Sommer and R. Jost (2000), "Carbenium and carbonium ions in liquid- and solid-superacid-catalyzed activation of small alkanes". Pure and Applied Chemistry, volume 72, pages 2309–2318. doi:10.1351/pac200072122309
  7. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. DOE (2006). "Energy Bandwidth for Petroleum Refining Processes"