Curious or dubious: the story of a hydrocarbon with an exceptionally short C=C bond length

Chandrasekhar, J (1999) Curious or dubious: the story of a hydrocarbon with an exceptionally short C=C bond length. In: Current Science, 76 (12). pp. 1526-1528.

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Abstract

One of the greatest achievements in molecular sciences this century has been the accurate determination of structures of a large number of chemical systems. While a variety of spectroscopic and diffraction methods have been used successfully for this purpose, X-ray crystallography has led the way. For the vast majority of chemists, single crystal X-ray structure determination represents the ultimate unimpeachable evidence for the proposed structure. The geometric details obtained through crystallography have also served as the basis for our present understanding of structural chemistry. These data represent an important source of parameterization as well as benchmarks for empirical theoretical models. The quality of quantum chemical procedures, which often use drastic approximations while solving the Schrodinger equation, has also been judged through comparisons of structural predictions with X ray results.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Current Science
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	The copyright belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences.
Keywords:	hydrocarbon;carbon;bond;crystallography;x ray
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:15
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/1548

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