Carbon rips up chemistry textbooks

• Autores: Rebecca Boyle
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3108, 2017, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Tear up that old textbook. A pyramid-shaped carbon molecule that contradicts one of the most basic chemistry lessons people learn at school has been studied for the first time. It contains a carbon atom that bonds to six other atoms instead of the four they have been told carbon is limited to. Atoms form molecules by sharing electrons. Carbon has four electrons that it can share with other atoms. But in certain conditions, carbon can be stretched beyond this limit says Moritz Malischewski, a chemist at the Free University of Berlin who synthesised and studied the molecule, called hexamethylbenzene.