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[edit] carbon tetraoxide

Carbon tetraoxide has been detected following the radiation decompostion of CO₂ at 10K. A cyclic structure with C2v symmetry has been determined spectroscopically. ^[1]

[edit] carbon pentaoxide

[edit] References

1. ^ Novel detection of the C2v isomer of carbon tetraoxide (CO₄)Corey S. Jamieson, Alexander M. Mebelb and Ralf I. Kaise Chemical Physics Letters 440, 1-3, 25 May 2007, 105-109 doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2007.04.043