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SUBMITTER: Trindle C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504323 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trindle Carl C Altun Zikri Z Bleda Erdi Ata EA
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200828 17
The possibility of carbon tetravalence in geometries other than tetrahedral and of carbon hypervalence has been taken seriously since the 1970s. Computational modeling and subsequent experimental validation have established the existence of molecules with carbon atoms with planar tetravalence and as many as six objects in carbon's coordination sphere. In this work, we develop insight into the nature of bonding to carbon in these unusual environs as provided by Bader's Atoms in Molecules (AIM) an ...[more]