Preparation and characterization of gas-phase carbonic acid and its monomethyl ester
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Until fairly recently, scientists were convinced that carbonic acid (H2CO3) does not exist as a stable molecule. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, German researchers have now introduced a simple pyrolytic method for the production of gas-phase carbonic acid that allowed the spectroscopic characterization of gas-phase carbonic acid and its monomethyl ester.