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“Breaking the Rules”: A Planar Phosphonium Cation
Author(s) -
Stephan Douglas W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000204)39:3<501::aid-anie501>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - tetracoordinate , phosphonium , planar , square (algebra) , externalization , chemistry , computer science , psychology , psychoanalysis , organic chemistry , mathematics , geometry , computer graphics (images)
Long‐standing tenets of a discipline must be questioned in an effort to fully understand the fundamentals of science. This is exemplified by the synthesis of planar‐tetracoordinate compounds, such as the square‐planar phosphonium ion 1 by Driess et al., which provide exceptions to van't Hoff – Le Bel rules.