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Hypervalent Carbon Atom: “Freezing” the S N 2 Transition State
Author(s) -
Pierrefixe Simon C. A. H.,
van Stralen Sebastiaan J. M.,
van Stralen Joost N. P.,
Fonseca Guerra Célia,
Bickelhaupt F. Matthias
Publication year - 2009
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/anie.200902125
Subject(s) - hypervalent molecule , atom (system on chip) , carbon fibers , state (computer science) , chemistry , carbon atom , transition (genetics) , crystallography , stereochemistry , computer science , organic chemistry , programming language , operating system , algorithm , alkyl , reagent , composite number , biochemistry , gene
High Five! Under certain circumstances a carbon atom can become hypervalent (see structure) and bind five substituents in the trigonal‐bipyramidal structure, which is normally the labile S N 2 transition state.

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