Room-temperature chemical synthesis of C2

Kazunori Miyamoto (), Shodai Narita, Yui Masumoto, Takahiro Hashishin, Taisei Osawa, Mutsumi Kimura, Masahito Ochiai and Masanobu Uchiyama ()
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Kazunori Miyamoto: The University of Tokyo
Shodai Narita: The University of Tokyo
Yui Masumoto: The University of Tokyo
Takahiro Hashishin: The University of Tokyo
Taisei Osawa: The University of Tokyo
Mutsumi Kimura: Shinshu University
Masahito Ochiai: University of Tokushima
Masanobu Uchiyama: The University of Tokyo

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Diatomic carbon (C2) is historically an elusive chemical species. It has long been believed that the generation of C2 requires extremely high physical energy, such as an electric carbon arc or multiple photon excitation, and so it has been the general consensus that the inherent nature of C2 in the ground state is experimentally inaccessible. Here, we present the chemical synthesis of C2 from a hypervalent alkynyl-λ3-iodane in a flask at room temperature or below, providing experimental evidence to support theoretical predictions that C2 has a singlet biradical character with a quadruple bond, thus settling a long-standing controversy between experimental and theoretical chemists, and that C2 serves as a molecular element in the bottom-up chemical synthesis of nanocarbons such as graphite, carbon nanotubes, and C60.

Date: 2020
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