Response to the Comment by J. Grunenberg on "the Nature of the Fourth Bond in the Ground State of C2: The Quadruple Bond Conundrum′′

Sason Shaik; David Danovich; Philippe C. Hiberty

doi:10.1002/chem.201503882

Response to the Comment by J. Grunenberg on "the Nature of the Fourth Bond in the Ground State of C₂: The Quadruple Bond Conundrum′′

Sason Shaik^*
, David Danovich
, Philippe C. Hiberty

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Chemistry

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Abstract

The quadruple bond structure in C₂ emerges from solid quantum-chemical calculations and won′t go away! There is no mystery in the rather small bond dissociation energy, and this cannot constitute the reason to reconsider the whole concept of quadruple bonding.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17127-17128
Number of pages	2
Journal	Chemistry - A European Journal
Volume	21
Issue number	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201503882
State	Published - 1 Nov 2015

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© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords

C
bond order
bonding
force constants
valence bond

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