If you don’t want to watch the entire video, it’s a Carborane acid.
I’d love to see what the molecular orbitals look like. It’s not every day that you see carbon forming six “bonds”.
If you don’t want to watch the entire video, it’s a Carborane acid.
I’d love to see what the molecular orbitals look like. It’s not every day that you see carbon forming six “bonds”.
The nearest that I can picture is three banana bonds with three centres and two electrons for each boron; one Cl-B-B, two B-B-B. (Boron loves this sort of gimmick bond.) Something similar should apply to the carbon, one H-C-B and two B-C-B.
Except that the atoms keep shuffling their bananas back and forth, so it’s more like resonant bananas. What a mess.