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Comment on “The Quadruple Bonding in C 2 Reproduces the Properties of the Molecule”
Author(s) -
Frenking Gernot,
Hermann Markus
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201601382
Subject(s) - acetylene , molecule , core (optical fiber) , bond , materials science , crystallography , chemistry , chemical physics , composite material , organic chemistry , business , finance
Not the number of bonds but the strength of the total σ bonding in C 2 , which is suggested by several groups to be much weaker than in acetylene, is at the core of the controversy.