Researchers from the group of Dimitrios Pantazis and @TU Dortmund have created a new type of organic compound featuring a neutral, singly-bonded carbon atom. The work was published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.
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https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/02/24/an-exotic-monovalent-carbon-compound
An exotic monovalent carbon compound

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The original paper from #AngewChem is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.199605881 ($)

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