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Perfect planar tetracoordinate carbon in neutral unsaturated hydrocarbon cages: A new strategy utilizing three-dimensional electron delocalization

✍ Scribed by Yang Wang


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
232 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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Abstract

A new series of unsaturated pure and boron‐substituted hydrocarbons containing a perfect planar tetracoordinate carbon (ptC) have been proposed by performing density functional computations. The ptC is effectively stabilized through three‐dimensional delocalization of ptC's lone pair into π‐conjugated systems, by utilizing a new strategy opening a brand new way of designing ptC structures. Compared to previously proposed ptC‐containing hydrocarbon cage compound, a neutral hydrocarbon designed here might be a more viable target for synthetic attempts. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 2009