Direct evidence for a carbon-carbon one-electron σ-bond.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

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Date de publication:
25 Sep 2024
Historique:
received: 24 11 2023
accepted: 20 08 2024
medline: 26 9 2024
pubmed: 26 9 2024
entrez: 25 9 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Covalent bonds share electron pairs between two atoms and make up the skeletons of most organic compounds in single, double and triple bonds. In contrast, examples of one-electron bonds remain scarce, most probably due to their intrinsic weakness

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pubmed: 39322667
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1
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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Takuya Shimajiri (T)

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. shimajiri@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. shimajiri@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. shimajiri@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Soki Kawaguchi (S)

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Takanori Suzuki (T)

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Yusuke Ishigaki (Y)

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. yishigaki@sci.hokudai.ac.jp.

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