{"id":215376,"date":"2025-06-04T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/strain-can-unlock-electron-donating-orbital-in-tetravalent-carbon-atoms"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:02:24","slug":"strain-can-unlock-electron-donating-orbital-in-tetravalent-carbon-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/strain-can-unlock-electron-donating-orbital-in-tetravalent-carbon-atoms","title":{"rendered":"Strain can unlock electron-donating orbital in tetravalent carbon atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strain-can-unlock-electron-donating-orbital-in-tetravalent-carbon-atoms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scheiner and Zierkiewicz, however, have been studying apical carbon atoms in propellane and pyramidane molecules, where the bonding situation is rather different. Along with Mariusz Michalczyk, also at Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology, they\u2019ve identified an electron-donating orbital \u2013 or pseudo lone pair \u2013 on these tetrahedral carbons.<\/p>\n<p>While it clearly has a negative charge, Scheiner acknowledges that the nature of this electron-donating orbital could be up for debate. Nonetheless, it appears that this region of negative electrostatic potential can attract the \u03c3-hole of an electrophile to form various non-covalent interactions including hydrogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen and tetrel bonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheiner and Zierkiewicz, however, have been studying apical carbon atoms in propellane and pyramidane molecules, where the bonding situation is rather different. Along with Mariusz Michalczyk, also at Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology, they\u2019ve identified an electron-donating orbital \u2013 or pseudo lone pair \u2013 on these tetrahedral carbons. While it clearly has a negative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}