Talk:Tricarbon

Mostly transcribed from the discussion on cyclopropatriene, which I have converted to carbon trimer and then merged to tricarbon.

Long story. Embarrassingly (as the creator of the cyclopropatriene article) I just ran with the name in the the wikipedia list of molecules in interstellar space without chasing up whether the structure had been elucidated. It was described as cyclopropatriene and as a result I ran with it, creating an article principally inspired by its novel supposed structure and some chemistry forum threads vaguely suggesting cyclic C3. It was only after anecdotal ab initio simulation of the species (by myself, and I realise that wikipedia is not the place for original research, but this was to check upon realising I may have fouled up) followed by a heap of research that a linear geometry was unambiguously described and the cyclopropatriene article was rewritten by myself to describe C3 linear. Subsequent discovery of a tricarbon article led a merge and removal of reference to cyclic C3 isomerism in this article.

Incidentally, it is interesting to note that Kaiser et al. 1996 confirm linear -and- cyclic C3H species in interstellar space w/ ab initio confirmation of their stability. Snarfevs 11:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)