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Nils Schulz
Carbon’s Three-Center-Four-Electron Tetrel Bond, Treated Experimentally
Tetrel bonding is the noncovalent interaction of group IV elements with electron donors. It is a weak, directional interaction that resembles hydrogen and halogen bonding yet remains barely explored. Herein, we present an experimental investigation of the carbon-centered, three-center, four-electron tetrel bond, [N−C− N]+ , formed by capturing a carbenium ion with a bidentate Lewis base. NMRspectroscopic, titration-calorimetric, and reaction-kinetic evidence for the existence and structure of this species is reported. The studied interaction is by far the strongest tetrel bond reported so far and is discussed in comparison with the analogous halogen bond. The necessity of the involvement of…
CCDC 1581474: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
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