Carbine

Carbine
Carbine
 
[lateinisch],
 
 1) Bezeichnung für die Moleküle einer Kohlenstoffmodifikation, bestehend aus C-Ketten mit abwechselnden Einfach- und Dreifachbindungen, »Polyacetylene«, (C ≡ C—)n. Carbine wurden u. a. in Kometen und planetarischem Nebeln nachgewiesen sowie in Meteorgestein entdeckt. Es wurden aber auch Zweifel an der Existenz der Carbine geäußert.
 
 2) Bezeichnung für Verbindungen, die die Gruppe ≡C—R enthalten (abgeleitet von der Carbin oder Methin genannten Gruppe ≡C—H); meist metallorganische Carbinkomplexe mit Metall-Kohlenstoff-Dreifachbindungen.

Universal-Lexikon. 2012.

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