Ammonium ozonide explained

Ammonium ozonide is an oxygen rich molecule containing an ammonium cation (NH₄⁺) and an ozonide anion (O₃⁻). Ammonium ozonide, like alkali ozonides, is a red solid. Ammonium ozonide is stable at low temperatures, but it decomposes to ammonium nitrate at temperatures above -70 °C.

Preparation and decomposition

Ammonium ozonide is made by bubbling gaseous ozone through liquid ammonia at -110 °C. This method suffers from a low yield.

Ammonium ozonide decomposes into ammonium nitrate, oxygen gas, and water. If the above reaction is done at high temperatures, these decomposition products result immediately and no ozonide is formed.

References

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Notes and References

1. McGee . Henry . July 1966 . Chemical Reactivity of Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Atoms at Temperatures below 100° K . 1–98 . NASA . A-661.
2. Solomon . Irvine J. . Hattori . Kiyo. . Kacmarek . Andrew J. . Platz . Gerald M. . Klein . Morton J. . January 1962 . Ammonium Ozonide . Journal of the American Chemical Society . en . 84 . 1 . 34–36 . 10.1021/ja00860a008 . 0002-7863.