title: Multicenter bonding in carbocations with tetracoordinate protons.
abstract: The nature of the bonding in a set of nonclassical carbocations with tetracoordinated protons "sandwiched" between two C=C pi bonds was scrutinized using the new computational methodology of generalized population analysis. The results of this theoretical analysis strongly corroborate the conclusions of a previous study in which the occurrence of delocalized 5-center 4-electron (5c-4e) bonding in the C-C-H-C-C fragments of such cations was anticipated.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 6, Suchdol 2, 165 02 Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ponec
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bultinck
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gutta
authors.forename: Dean J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Tantillo