Talk:Carbon subnitride

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[edit] Organic? Stub?

Someone just tagged this as an organic compound stub, but that's debatable on both counts. I put it in Category:Inorganic carbon compounds because it lacks carbon-hydrogen bonds, and on analogy with cyanogen and carbon suboxide. I don't think it's a stub either, because it's not "so incomplete that an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial Web search or a few minutes in a reference library". —Keenan Pepper 00:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion, it would qualify as an Organic compound, as it probably cannot be made by inorganic means, like direct combination of carbon and nitrogen. Carbon Tetrachloride is organic although it contains no hydrogen. Joeylawn 16:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Carbon tetrachloride is in Category:Inorganic carbon compounds. —Keenan Pepper 17:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

OK ,deleted. Joeylawn 02:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What's wrong with {{Chembox new}}?

It seemed fine to me, but someone replaced it with a table with a bunch of formatting information and visible xs. —Keenan Pepper 16:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delocalisation

Isn't the "alternating single and triple bonds" thing wrong? Surely they are delocalised bonds with some electron sharing? I remember doing an exercise on a molecule that was H-C=C-C=C-C=C-C=C-C=C-C=C-H and all the bonds were 1.5 bonds if you do it with schrodinger equation, molecular orbitals etc. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ucgajhe (talk • contribs) .

I thought that at first too, but aparently it is not so for the polyyne case. Check out J. Chem. Phys. 114:2208, Electronic spectra of the chains HC_2nH (n = 8 – 13) in the gas phase, which says "As a consequence of localized π orbitals, large bond length alternation is expected". Even an infinite linear chain of carbon atoms is expected to have alternating bond lengths: J. Phys. C 12:3227, Ab initio studies on polymers I: The linear infinite polyyne. So "alternating single and triple bonds" appears to be an accurate description. —Keenan Pepper 13:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)