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Not to be confused with methenium.
Methanium
A carbon atom, bearing a formal charge of +1, single-bonded to each of five hydrogen atoms
"True" methanium, the metastable transitional state [CH5]+
A carbon atom single-bonded to each of three hydrogen atoms and engaging in a three-center two-electron bond with two additional hydrogen atoms, the group as a whole bearing a +1 charge
Fluxional methanium, [CH3(H2)]+
Names
IUPAC name
Methanium
Other names
carbonium (discouraged due to multiple definitions)[1]
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
  • true methanium: InChI=1S/CH5/h1H5/q+1
    Key: PXOFOHGGCICFQD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • fluxional methanium: InChI=1S/CH5/c1-2/h2H,1H3/q+1
    Key: AJLDAZFHECSILY-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • true methanium: [C+H5]
  • fluxional methanium: [CH3+].[HH]
Properties
CH+5
Molar mass 17.051 g·mol−1
Conjugate base Methane
Structure
trigonal bipyramidal
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

In chemistry, methanium is a complex positive ion with formula [CH5]+ (metastable transitional form, a carbon atom covalently bonded to five hydrogen atoms) or [CH3(H2)]+ (fluxional form, namely a molecule with one carbon atom covalently bonded to three hydrogen atoms and one dihydrogen molecule), bearing a +1 electric charge. It is a superacid and one of the onium ions, indeed the simplest carbonium ion.

It is highly unstable and highly reactive even upon having a complete octet, thus granting its superacidic properties.

Methanium can be produced in the laboratory as a rarefied gas or as a dilute species in superacids. It was prepared for the first time in 1950 and published in 1952 by Victor Talrose and his assistant Anna Konstantinovna Lyubimova.[2][3] It occurs as an intermediate species in chemical reactions.

The methanium ion is named after methane (CH4), by analogy with the derivation of ammonium ion (NH+4) from ammonia (NH3).

Structure

Fluxional methanium can be visualised as a CH+3 carbenium ion with a molecule of hydrogen interacting with the empty orbital in a 3-center-2-electron bond. The bonding electron pair in the H2 molecule is shared between the two hydrogen and one carbon atoms making up the 3-center-2-electron bond.[4]

The two hydrogen atoms in the H2 molecule can continuously exchange positions with the three hydrogen atoms in the CH+3 ion (a conformation change called pseudorotation, specifically the Berry mechanism). The methanium ion is therefore considered a fluxional molecule. The energy barrier for the exchange is quite low and occurs even at very low temperatures.[5][6]

Infrared spectroscopy has been used to obtain information about the different conformations of the methanium ion.[7][8][9] The IR spectrum of plain methane has two C-H bands from symmetric and asymmetric stretching at around 3000 cm−1 and two bands around 1400 cm−1 from symmetrical and asymmetric bending vibrations. In the spectrum of CH+5 three asymmetric stretching vibrations are present around 2800–3000 cm−1, a rocking vibration at 1300 cm−1, and a bending vibration at 1100 1300 cm−1.

Preparation

Methanium can be prepared from methane by the action of very strong acids, such as fluoroantimonic acid (antimony pentafluoride SbF5 in hydrogen fluoride HF).[10]

At about 270 Pa of pressure and ambient temperature, the methane ion CH+4 will react with neutral methane to yield methanium and a methyl radical:[11]

CH+4 + CH4 → CH+5 + CH3•

The methanium ion can also be made in the gas phase via the reaction of methane and an H+ ion (i.e. a proton).[citation needed]

CH4 + H+(g) → CH+5

Stability and reactions

The cations obtained by reaction of methane with SbF5 + HF, including methanium, are stabilized by interactions with the HF molecules.

At low pressures (around 1 mmHg) and ambient temperatures, methanium is unreactive towards neutral methane.[11]

Further reading

  • D. W. Boo; Z. F. Liu; A. G. Suits; J. S. Tse; Y. T. Lee (1995). "Dynamics of Carbonium Ions Solvated by Molecular Hydrogen: CH5+(H2)n (n= 1, 2, 3)". Science. 269 (5220): 57–9. Bibcode:1995Sci...269...57B. doi:10.1126/science.269.5220.57. PMID 17787703. S2CID 2100896.
  • Kramer, G. M. (1999). "CH5+ Stability and Mass Spectrometry". Science. 286 (5442): 1051a–1051. doi:10.1126/science.286.5442.1051a. ISSN 0036-8075.
  • Marx, D. (1999). "MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY:CH5+: The Cheshire Cat Smiles". Science. 284 (5411): 59–61. Bibcode:1999Sci...284...59.. doi:10.1126/science.284.5411.59. ISSN 0036-8075. S2CID 94058015.</ref> In this unusual species
  • Xiao-Gang Wang; Tucker Carrington Jr (2016). "Calculated rotation-bending energy levels of CH5+ and a comparison with experiment". Journal of Chemical Physics. 144 (20): 204304. Bibcode:2016JChPh.144t4304W. doi:10.1063/1.4948549. PMID 27250303.
  • H. Schmiedt; Per Jensen; S. Schlemmer (2017). "Rotation-vibration motion of extremely flexible molecules - The molecular superrotor". Chemical Physics Letters. 672: 34–46. Bibcode:2017CPL...672...34S. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2017.01.045.

See also

References

  1. ^ Chemistry, International Union of Pure and Applied (2009). "carbonium ion". IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology. IUPAC. doi:10.1351/goldbook.C00839. ISBN 978-0-9678550-9-7. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  2. ^ V. L. Talrose and A. K. Lyubimova, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 86, 909-912 (1952) (In Russian: Тальрозе, В. Л., and А. К. Любимова. "Вторичные процессы в ионном источнике масс-спектрометра." ДАН СССР 86 (1952): 909-912)
  3. ^ Nikolaev, Eugene (1998). "Victor Talrose: an appreciation". Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 33 (6): 499–501. Bibcode:1998JMSp...33..499N. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-9888(199806)33:6<499::AID-JMS684>3.0.CO;2-C. ISSN 1076-5174.
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    5    : The never-ending story or the final word?". Journal of Chemical Physics. 99 (5): 3716–3720. doi:10.1063/1.466147.
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