Friday, August 18, 2017

inorganic chemistry - Coordination number of carbon in methyllithium tetramer


According to J. D. Lee's Concise Inorganic Chemistry, the coordination number of carbon in LiX4(CHX3)X4 is 7. But the structure of the tetramer is MethylLithiumTetramer


Doesn't carbon have coordination number 6 here? Am I missing something?




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