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Triple Bond Formed Between Boron and Carbon for the First Time. (www.uni-wuerzburg.de)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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