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Published September 1, 1933 | public
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The electron-diffraction investigation of the molecular structure of cyanogen and diacetylene (with a note on chlorine dioxide)

Abstract

The structures of cyanogen and diacetylene have been previously investigated by the electron-diffraction method by Wierl,(1) who reported nonlinear models with 150° bond angles for both molecules. The improbability of this conclusion, which is incompatible with all other evidence for the angle between a triple and a single bond on the same carbon atom, led to a reinvestigation of these compounds by the electron-diffraction method.

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© 1933 by the National Academy of Sciences. Communicated August 8, 1933. I wish to express my appreciation to Professor Pauling at whose suggestion this investigation was undertaken, and to Dr. G.W. Wheland for the preparation of the diacetylene. Contribution from Gates Chemical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, No. 354.

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