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 | | I've thought a CO2 polymorph with a silica-type structure (i.e., C tetrahedrally coordinated with O, with C-O-C bridges linking each vertex of each tetrahedron) might be a really useful substance. |
 | | Unfortunately, although organic compounds containing C tetrahedrally coordinated with oxygen exist (esters of "orthocarbonic acid"), no one has succeeded even in synthesizing the orthocarbonate ion (CO4^4-, analogous to the well-known isolated silicate tetrahedron SiO4^4-), much less in polymerizing such tetrahedra. |
 | | Engl., 18, 698-699, 1979), though, and some modeling suggests that orthocarbonate might not be completely unstable (i.e., there _is_ a minimum in the potential energy surface there; e.g., Johnson and Wasson, Inorg. |
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