Not Carbon s-p Hybridization, but Coordination Number Determines C-H and C-C Bond Length

Vermeeren, P; van Zeist, WJ; Hamlin, TA; Guerra, CF; Bickelhaupt, FM

Bickelhaupt, FM (corresponding author), Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Ctr Multiscale Modeling ACMM, Amsterdam Inst Mol & Life Sci AIMMS, Dept Theoret Chem, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Bickelhaupt, FM (corresponding author), Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Inst Mol & Mat IMM, Heyendaalseweg 135, NL-6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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Abstract

A fundamental and ubiquitous phenomenon in chemistry is the contraction of both C-H and C-C bonds as the carbon atoms involved vary, in s-p hybridizat......

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