Posts Tagged ‘Hiberty and co’
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Following the discussion here of Kekulé’s suggestion of what we now call a vibrational mode (and which in fact now bears his name), I thought I might apply the concept to a recent molecule known as [2.2]paracyclophane. The idea was sparked by Steve Bachrach’s latest post, where the “zero-point” structure of the molecule has recently been clarified as having D2 symmetry.[1]
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References
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H. Wolf, D. Leusser, M. Jørgensen, R. Herbst-Irmer, Y. Chen, E. Scheidt, W. Scherer, B.B. Iversen, and D. Stalke, "Phase Transition of [2,2]-Paracyclophane - An End to an Apparently Endless Story", Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 20, pp. 7048-7053, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201304972
Tags:10.1002, 201304972, Hiberty and co, Historical, Interesting chemistry, Steve Bachrach
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
In this post, I will take a look at what must be the most extraordinary small molecule ever made (especially given that it is merely a hydrocarbon). Its peculiarity is the region indicated by the dashed line below. Is it a bond? If so, what kind, given that it would exist sandwiched between two inverted carbon atoms?
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Tags:electronic energy, energy, energy density, excess kinetic energy, Hiberty and co, Hypervalency, Interesting chemistry, kinetic energy density, potential energy density, representative, X-ray
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
In the previous post, I ruminated about how chemists set themselves targets. Thus, having settled on describing regions between two (and sometimes three) atoms as bonds, they added a property of that bond called its order. The race was then on to find molecules which exhibit the highest order between any particular pair of atoms. The record is thus far five (six has been mooted but its a little less certain) for the molecule below
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Tags:bonding, ELF, Fluorine, Hiberty and co, Hypervalency
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