Researchers from the University of Würzburg are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world’s first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon.
Researchers from the University of Würzburg are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world’s first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon.
Bond strength isn’t necessarily a measure of bond reactivity. Triple bonds are often quite reactive, and in certain contexts they’re incredibly unstable and have unusual reactivity - see “benzyne”
Are benzynes really a triple bond, though, or are they more like a double bond with a “+” charge on one carbon and a “-” charge on the other?