The quadruple bond – 60 years – a tribute to F. Albert Cotton and other pioneers
摘要
The discovery of the multiple metal-metal bonds had a long history culminating in a 1964 paper by F. Albert Cotton and his associates. The pioneering works of Ida and Walter Noddack, Cyrill Brosset, Linus Pauling, and associates of the Kurnakov Institute in Moscow, are also remembered.