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Chem. Commun., 2006, 2164 - 2166, DOI: 10.1039/b602116f
Bond length and bond multiplicity:
-bond prevents short 
-bondsEluvathingal D. Jemmis, Biswarup Pathak, R. Bruce King and Henry F. Schaefer III
Analysis of model compounds such as Fe2(CO)6, C2 and HBBH shows that
-bonds left to themselves are shorter than 
-bonds; in many ways -bonds prevent -bonds from adopting their optimal shorter distances.
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