This is a follow up to my earlier post about C⩸N+, itself inspired by this ChemRxiv pre-print[1] which describes a chemical synthesis of singlet biradicaloid C2 and its proposed identification as such by chemical trapping.
References
- K. Miyamoto, S. Narita, Y. Masumoto, T. Hashishin, M. Kimura, M. Ochiai, and M. Uchiyama, "Room-Temperature Chemical Synthesis of C2", 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.8009633.v1