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Carbon as a hydrogen bond acceptor: can dicarbon (C2) act in this manner?

Friday, December 27th, 2019

In the previous post, I showed that carbon can act as a hydrogen bond acceptor (of a proton) to form strong hydrogen bond complexes. Which brings me to a conceptual connection: can singlet dicarbon form such a hydrogen bond? 

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