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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 2008-2011Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b403450c
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The TCNE22- pi-dimer has many of the characteristics of a chemical bond despite its remarkably long (2.9 Angstrom) C-C bondlength, as it exists in crystalline solids. Using computational methods, we examine the nature of this long bond by obtaining potential energy curves that are, for the first time, in satisfactory agreement with recent experiments. We find that the unusually long C-C bond observed in pi-TCNE22- dimers is in fact an outcome of significant dispersion attractions between the two cofacial monomers, as well as their (partial) intradimer pi-bonding interactions.
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