Faculty Publications – College of Science and Health
Title
Six-coordinate Carbon In-class Activity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-7-2017
Recommended Citation
Grice, Kyle A. and Burke Williams, Nancy Scott. (2017) Six-coordinate Carbon In-class Activity.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/cshfacpubs/86
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Comments
This is an in-class exercise developed based on a recent paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition that reported a crystal structure of "six-coordinate" carbon. We normally think of carbon being four-coordinate at most, but this case has definitive evidence otherwise. However, we can use our inorganic chemistry knowledge to understand the structure and bonding of this molecule and rationalize its stability. Students do a pre-class exercise and then construct the MO of fhe molecule in class together.