PNAS JUNE 3, 2008 vol.No.7647-7651 This Article Services Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Social Bookmarking PHYSICAL SCIENCES / CHEMISTRY LITHIUM MONOXIDE ANION: A GROUND-STATE TRIPLET WITH THE STRONGEST BASE TO DATE ZHIXIN TIAN, BUN CHAN, MICHAEL B.LEO RADOM,, AND STEVEN R.Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455; and School of Chemistry and Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Edited by W.Lineberger, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, and approved March 13, 2008 (received for review February 12, 2008) Lithium monoxide anion (LiO-) has been generated in the gas phase and is found to be a stronger base than methyl anion (CH_).Makes LiO- the strongest base currently known, and it will be a challenge to produce a singly charged or multiply charged anion that is more basic.Acidity of lithium hydroxide is H_ = 425.(1 kcal = 4.And, whenbined with results of high-levelputations, leads to our best estimate for the acidity of 426 2 kcalmol-1.Author contributions: Z.B.M.L.And S.Research; Z.B.M.L.And S.Analyzed data; L.And S.Designed research; and L.And S.Wrote the paper.Present address: Institute of High Performanceputing, Singapore 117528.The authors declare no conflict of interest.This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.This article contains supporting information online at .To whom correspondence may be addressed.Radom{at}chem.Read more Effects of estradiol and raloxifene on arterial thrombosis in ovariectomized mice.
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