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Tetraiodobutatriene: A new cumulenic carbon iodide
Webb, Jeffrey A.,Liu, Pei-Hua,Malkina, Olga L.,Goroff, Nancy S.
, p. 3011 - 3014 (2002)
In how many different ways can carbon and iodine combine to form a stable molecule? Here is a new possibility: the first reported iodocumulene. Tetraiodobutatriene (C4I4; see picture) is formed spontaneously and in good yield from diiodobutadiyne (C4I2). In solution, however, C4I4 disproportionates to give hexaiodobutadiene (C4I6) and unknown carbon-rich by-products.
