- A compound with six bonds to a carbon atom proven by X-ray crystallography. This rare example illustrates that carbon is not limited to four bonds as most chemistry courses describe. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201608795/abstract 38 comments science
Linking pages
- Carbon can exceed four-bond limit https://www.sciencenews.org/article/carbon-can-exceed-four-bond-limit 17 comments
- Oklahoma High School Student Discovers That Carbon Can Form 7 Bonds https://www.inverse.com/article/44254-high-school-student-george-wang-carbon-7-bonds 8 comments
- Forget What You Learned in High School - This New Carbon Molecule Has 6 Bonds : ScienceAlert http://www.sciencealert.com/forget-what-you-learned-in-high-school-this-new-carbon-molecule-has-6-bonds 3 comments