Chemists broke a 100-year-old rule to make extremely unstable molecules
Scientists have broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule to synthesize a class of molecules previously thought to be too unstable to form. The molecules in question violate Bredt’s rule, which describes where certain types of bonds can occur within a class of 3D chemical compounds. Successfully synthesizing these “anti-Bredt” molecules, as described Nov. 1 in the […]