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SUBMITTER: Kurzydlowski D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5093683 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kurzydłowski Dominik D Zaleski-Ejgierd Patryk P
Scientific reports 20161103
In all of its known connections nitrogen retains a valence shell electron count of eight therefore satisfying the golden rule of chemistry - the octet rule. Despite the diversity of nitrogen chemistry (with oxidation states ranging from + 5 to -3), and despite numerous efforts, compounds containing nitrogen with a higher electron count (hypervalent nitrogen) remain elusive and are yet to be synthesized. One possible route leading to nitrogen's hypervalency is the formation of a chemical moiety c ...[more]