Evidence for 5-center 4-electron bonding in (C...H...C...H...C) array.
This paper brings new independent evidence for 5-center 4-electron bonding, whose existence in (C...H...C...H...C) fragment of the molecule I was anticipated in the recent study by Tantillo and Hoffmann. The evidence is based on the applications of the so-called multicenter bond indices, recently proposed as new efficient tool for the detection and localization of multicenter bonding in molecules.
Ponec
Robert
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Institute of Chemcial Process Fundamentals, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 6, Suchdol, 165 02 Czech Republic. rponec@icpf.cas.cz
Yuzhakov
Gleb
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