Triple bonding between beryllium and nitrogen in HNBeCO

Lina Wang, Sudip Pan, Guanjun Wang, Xiaoqing Zeng, Mingfei Zhou, Gernot Frenking

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Abstract

The HNBeCO complex is generated via the reaction of a beryllium atom with a HNCO molecule in a solid neon matrix, which is identified via infrared absorption spectroscopy with isotopic substitutions. The complex is characterized to have a linear structure with a very short Be-N bond distance. Bonding analyses indicate that the complex involves an unprecedented HNBeCO triple bond consisting of two degenerate electron-sharing π bonds and a dative σ bond with the π bonds being much stronger than the σ bond.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8532-8535
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume58
Issue number61
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jun 2022

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