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pancake bond

pancake bond noun: a type of chemical bond most prominently observed in polycyclic hydrocarbons, in which the nuclear distance between molecular constituents reaches or exceeds a bond length of approximately 305 pm.

Noun

pancake bond (plural pancake bonds)

  1. A type of chemical bond most prominently observed in polycyclic hydrocarbons, in which the nuclear distance between molecular constituents reaches or exceeds a bond length of approximately 305 pm.
    • Unusually long bonds or short intermolecular contacts occur in the title compounds reminiscent of pancake bonding. Pancake bonding interactions seem analogous to π-stacking interactions, but they display much shorter contact distances than normally seen in van der Waals (vdW) dimers.2012, Habtamu Z. Beneberu, Yong-Hui Tian, Miklos Kertesz, PCCP, 2012,14, 10713-10725

Forms of pancake bond

pluralpancake bonds

Questions about pancake bond

What does pancake bond mean?
Pancake bond means a type of chemical bond most prominently observed in polycyclic hydrocarbons, in which the nuclear distance between molecular constituents reaches or exceeds a bond length of approximately 305 pm.
What part of speech is pancake bond?
Pancake bond is a noun.
What is the plural of pancake bond?
The plural of pancake bond is pancake bonds.

Words near pancake bond in the dictionary

  1. panbroiling
  2. panbroils
  3. panbronchiolitis
  4. Panbryde
  5. pancake
  6. pancake bond
  7. pancake bonds
  8. Pancake Day
  9. pancake engine
  10. pancake engines
  11. pancake ice

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