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Note that "C2h" is the symmetry[1] and "N6" is the chemical formula. Yes, 6 Nitrogen in a line, N-N-N-N-N-N with some weird bounds and internal charges, probabl
by gus_massa 1y ago
Note that "C2h" is the symmetry[1] and "N6" is the chemical formula. Yes, 6 Nitrogen in a line, N-N-N-N-N-N with some weird bounds and internal charges, probably a good candidate to "Things I Won't Work With" in https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline From the article:
> Detonation calculation details
[1] See for example another molecule with a different shape but the same symmetry in https://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/ch/compchem/geom/sym_C2h.html https://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/ch/compchem/geom/sym_C2h.htm...
- gmcharlt 1y agoDerek Lowe of "Things I Won't Work With" weighs in: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hexanitrogen https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hexanitrogen
- bilsbie 1y agoIsn’t it a ring shape?
- gus_massa 1y agoNo, it's almost linear with a small glitch in the center https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09032-9/figures/4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09032-9/figures/4
- meepmorp 1y agoThat's just 3 nitrogen molecules in a trench coat
- lazide 1y agoWith a claymore strapped to their chest!
- gus_massa 1y agoI know it's a joke, but recently a coworker showed us a preprint about theoretical calculations of long strings of nitrogen. They are very unestable and almost immediately they split into a bunch of N2 molecules. So "just 3 nitrogen molecules in a trench coat" is a good characterization of the situation.
- rini17 1y agoNo, they only mentioned that hexanitrobenzene has too small dissociation energy computed, sadly.