File:Chemdg ethanium 1pos.svg
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English: A schematic "roadkill" diagram of the ethanium cation (positive ion) C2H7+, also called "protonated ethane". It is a carbocation, one of the simples saturated "onium" ions (after methanium, CH5+. It may be viewed as being to ethane what hydrazinium is to hydrazine.
The structure of molecule was disputed for a long time, but it was eventually agreed that one of the hydrogens is bridging the two carbons, forming a 2-electron 3-center "non-classical" bond. The charge is distributed symmetrically; I do not know whether it is between the two carbons or over the hydrogens as well. The other hydrogens are not planar. |
| Date | 21 February 2013, 13:36:35 |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Jorge Stolfi |
| SVG development | The SVG diagram was generated by a home-brewed Python script.  This structural formula was created with script mformula_svg.  |
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 16:57, 21 February 2013 | | 134 × 97 (3 KB) | Jorge Stolfi | This is the correct diagram (the previous version showed ethenium C2H5+ rather than ethanium). |
| 16:46, 21 February 2013 |  | 134 × 97 (3 KB) | Jorge Stolfi | User created page with UploadWizard |
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