Both the cyclopropenium cation and the cyclopentadienide anion are well-known 4n+2-type aromatic ions, but could the two together form an ion-pair?
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Cyclopropenium cyclopentadienide: a strangely neutral ion-pair?
Sunday, April 9th, 2017More tetrahedral fun. Spherical aromaticity (and other oddities) in N4 and C4 systems?
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017The thread thus far. The post about Na2He introduced the electride anionic counter-ion to Na+ as corresponding topologically to a rare feature known as a non-nuclear attractor. This prompted speculation about other systems with such a feature, and the focus shifted to a tetrahedral arrangement of four hydrogen atoms as a dication, sharing a total of two valence electrons. The story now continues here.
How many water molecules does it take to form ammonium hydroxide from ammonia and water?
Sunday, March 20th, 2016This is a corollary to the previous post‡ exploring how many molecules are needed to ionise HCl. Here I am asking how many water molecules are required to form the ionic ammonium hydroxide from ammonia and water.