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A Rebel in the Ranks: A Phosphonium Cation with
a Planar Tetracoordinate Phosphorus Atom:
An Anti van’t Hoff-Le Bel Structure

V Chandrasekhar

The shapes and structures of chemical compounds apart from their aesthetic beauty also have a bearing on the way these compounds behave in terms of their chemical reactions or even biological activity. For this reason chemists spend a reasonable amount of their time in trying to determine the structures of chemical compounds which they have synthesized in the laboratory or which may have been isolated from natural sources.

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