When atoms getting close: Shortest carbon-chlorine single bond detected

The description of compounds and interactions between atoms is one of the basic objectives of chemistry. Admittedly, chemical bonding models, which describe these properties very well, already exist. However, any deviation from the normal factors may lead to improving the models further. Chemists with Professor Thomas M. Klapötke at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Germany, have now analyzed a molecule, which has an extremely short bond length.

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