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A Response to the Critical Comments on “One Molecule, Two Atoms, Three Views, Four Bonds?”
Author(s) -
Danovich David,
Shaik Sason,
Rzepa Henry S.,
Hoffmann Roald
Publication year - 2013
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.201302350
Subject(s) - bond , criticism , molecule , chemical bond , gauge (firearms) , computational chemistry , chemistry , theoretical physics , epistemology , philosophy , materials science , physics , law , organic chemistry , political science , economics , finance , metallurgy
The criticism expressed by Frenking and Hermann on the notion of quadruple bonding in C 2 is answered using hard facts. Both experimental and computational data gauge the strength of the fourth bond as 16 kcal mol −1 . The authors agree that chemical research goes profitably beyond “synthetic” chemistry.