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Quadruply bonded carbon

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Determining molecular bond orders can be a delicate and sophisticated task, especially if the electronic structure of the studied system is complex. Now, two different ab initio methods have revealed that C2 and analogous species have a fourth bond, rather than the previously assumed maximum of three.

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Figure 1: The bond strength and restoring force in C2.

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