“…The carbonate ion is almost planar, as borne out by the fact that all the OdCdO angles are ∼119°. It is not possible to assign any of the experimentally observed bands to tridentate CO 2 at corner sites, but Yanagisawa et al 15 observed the appearance of a new band after successive evacuation of CO 2 on MgO at elevated temperatures; at room temperature, they observed two distinct sets of bands at 1659, 1329, and 1024 cm -1 and 1626, 1273, and 947 cm -1 , i.e., in the same regions as Fukuda and Tanabe 14 ( Figure 10), but upon evacuation at temperatures between 473 and 673 K, the latter bands disappeared and a weak band at 1439 cm -1 emerged. Finally, after evacuation at 823 K, all bands disappeared.…”