Cover Picture: Tetranitromethane: A Nightmare of Molecular Flexibility in the Gaseous and Solid States (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 32/2017). Issue 32 (6th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vishnevskiy, Yury V.; Tikhonov, Denis S.; Schwabedissen, Jan; Stammler, Hans‐Georg; Moll, Richard; Krumm, Burkhard; Klapötke, Thomas M.; Mitzel, Norbert W.
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 56:Issue 32(2017)
• Page Start: 9243
• Page End: 9243
• Publication Date: 2017-07-06
• Subjects: gas-phase electron diffraction -- molecular dynamics -- molecular structure -- tetranitromethane -- X-ray diffraction; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201706569
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract : After 70 years of numerous attempts to determine the structure of the high‐energy molecule tetranitromethane, it has become possible to describe the electron and X‐ray scattering data of the gas and two solid phases, respectively. In their Communication onpage 9619 ff., N. W. Mitzel et al. report a structural analysis of this nightmare of molecular flexibility. The cover picture shows Johann Heinrich Füssli′s "The Nightmare" from 1790, a model of the solid high‐temperature phase, and an ignition experiment.