Issue 20, 2006
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Chemical Communications

Bond length and bond multiplicity: σ-bond prevents short π-bonds†

Eluvathingal D. Jemmis,*ab   Biswarup Pathak,ab   R. Bruce Kingc  and  Henry F. Schaefer IIIc  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India

b Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
E-mail: jemmis@ipc.iisc.ernet.in
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Tel: +91-80-2293-3348

c Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
E-mail: hfs@uga.edu
Fax: +1-706-5420406

Abstract

Analysis of model compounds such as Fe2(CO)6, C2 and HBBH shows that π-bonds left to themselves are shorter than σ-bonds; in many ways σ-bonds prevent π-bonds from adopting their optimal shorter distances.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B602116F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Feb 2006
Accepted
29 Mar 2006
First published
18 Apr 2006

Chem. Commun., 2006, 2164-2166

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E. D. Jemmis, B. Pathak, R. B. King and H. F. Schaefer III, Chem. Commun., 2006, 2164 DOI: 10.1039/B602116F

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