The Structure of Carbon Suboxide, C3O2, in the Solid State
The Structure of Carbon Suboxide, C3O2, in the Solid State
Arkady Ellern, Thomas Drews and Konrad Seppelt*
Berlin, Institut fuÈ r Chemie der Freien UniversitaÈ t
Received September 11th, 2000.
Abstract. Carbon suboxide, C3O2, is crystallized from the
melt. According to the X-ray structure determination the
crystal contains two non-crystallographically equivalent mo-
lecules in the asymmetric unit: a = 986.9(2), b = 1206.0(2),
c = 5
