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Offline Next_level

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Hexagonal structure
« on: May 25, 2006, 08:48:50 AM »
Hi... the hexagonal structure (two hexagons connected end-on-end) which you see on this bad-quality-picture should represent something in chemistry. I need your help to determine what...
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/1598/p10100034bn.jpg
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2006, 10:39:00 AM »
Ph2?

ie C6H5-C6H5
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2006, 12:58:32 PM »
This is a biphenyl in a very artistic fashion
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2006, 08:44:03 AM »
They look more like building structures than molecules
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2006, 07:13:50 AM »
Are the two hexagons in biphenyl planar?
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2006, 09:00:42 AM »
Each one is planar, but the are not coplanar in the crystal
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2006, 06:13:23 AM »
Why?
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2006, 06:37:14 AM »
Because of proximity of some hydrogen atoms that repel themseves
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2006, 11:58:22 AM »
The more I look at that picture, the more I believe it has nothing to do with chemistry.
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Re: Hexagonal structure
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2006, 02:28:09 PM »
It is obviously a screenshot from a computer game.
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