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ReportsCyclopropenylidenes: From Interstellar Space to an Isolated Derivative in the Laboratory
Like many of the molecular species that have been detected in the interstellar medium, the singlet carbene cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) has been presumed to be too unstable to isolate in the laboratory. However, by appending
1 University of California, Riverside–CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory (Unité Mixte Internationale 2957), Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521–0403, USA. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gbertran{at}mail.ucr.edu
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-electron–donating amino groups to the triangular skeleton, we prepared a cyclopropenylidene derivative that is stable at room temperature. In contrast to previously isolated carbenes, this compound does not require a heteroatom adjacent to the electron-deficient carbon to confer stability. Despite the presence of amino groups, the geometric parameters of the cyclic skeleton, revealed by x-ray crystallography, are only slightly perturbed relative to those of the calculated structure of unsubstituted cyclopropenylidene. Stable cyclopropenylidene derivatives might thus serve as models for a better understanding of the formation of carbon-bearing molecules in the interstellar medium. 
Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
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