Comment on “The Nature of the Fourth Bond in the Ground State of C2: The Quadruple Bond Conundrum”
Jörg Grunenberg · Chemistry - A European Journal · 2015
Is it time to reconsider the whole concept of quadruple bonding? Contrary to the conclusion of Shaik and co-workers in Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 6220–6232, there is no “deviation of C2 from the Badger Rule”.