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Carbon allotropes

On the road to carbyne

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Chemists have now prepared the longest known stable subunit of the elusive all-carbon polymer — carbyne. Their results suggest that carbyne itself would have a polyyne-like rather than a cumulene structure.

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Figure 1: Carbyne and oligomeric substructures.

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  1. Michael Haley is Head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1253, USA. haley@uoregon.edu,

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Haley, M. On the road to carbyne. Nature Chem 2, 912–913 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.884

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