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Mellitic anhydride, one of the larger oxocarbons.

An oxocarbon is a chemical compound consisting only of carbon and oxygen.

The simplest and most common oxocarbons are carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2). There are however many other stable or metastable oxides of carbon which rarely occur outside chemical plants and laboratories, such as carbon suboxide (O=C=C=C=O), and mellitic anhydride (C12O9).

Several new oxides, with various degrees of stability, have been synthesized since the 1990s. These include many oxides which are inherently unstable and can be observed only momentarily as intermediates in chemical reactions. Three important examples are the dicarbon monoxide radical (:C=C=O), carbon trioxide (CO3), and 1,2-dioxetanedione (C2O4). There are also many oxocarbons which are very reactive, and can be studied only in the gas phase, or under matrix isolation conditions.

Linear carbon dioxides

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One family of carbon oxides has the general formula CnO2, or O=(C=)nO --- namely a linear chain of carbon atoms connected by double bonds, capped by oxygen atoms at both ends. The first members are

Some higher member of this family (for n = 17,19,21) have been detected in trace amounts in cryogenic matrix experiment : p.95 

Radialene-type cyclic polyketones

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Cyclopentanepentone, a radialene-type oxocarbon.

Another family of oxocarbons that has attracted special attention are the cyclic radialene-type oxocarbons CnOn or (CO)n. They can be regarded as cyclic polymers of carbon monoxide, or n-fold ketones of n-carbon cycloalkanes. The first two members are carbon monoxide itself (CO) and the extremely unstable ethylene dione C2O2 or O=C=C=O. Theoretical studies suggest that the next four members — C3O3, C4O4, C5O5, and C6O6 — may be stable, but so far they have been synthesized only in trace amounts.

On the other hand, the anions of these oxocarbons are quite stable and have been known since the 19th century. They are, respectively, deltate (C3O32−), squarate (C4O42−), croconate (C5O52−), and rhodizonate (C6O62−). The aromaticity of these anions has been studied using theoretical methods.

New oxides

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Many new stable or metastable oxides have been synthesized since the 1990s, such as:

Polymeric carbon oxides

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Carbon-oxygen polymers of relatively high molecular weight, with 3:2 atomic ratio can be obtained from carbon suboxide (spontaneously) or carbon monoxide (by compression to 5 GPA). Another carbon-oxygen polymer, with C:O ratio 5:1 or higher, is the classical graphite oxide (1859) and its single-sheet version graphene oxide.


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