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.
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?
I mean youre not wrong but this argument can be applied to an absolute ton of chemical functionalities. I don’t have time to dig up evidence but I’m sure benzyne has been characterized spectroscopically to determine. I’d imagine it as a resonance structure of a triple bond and charge separated species like you would an ylide or sulfoxide, but neither is wrong