Predominantly air- and moisture-stable carbyne derivatives such as 1 have been synthesized by Gladysz et al. Compound 1 contains the longest CC chain in compounds of this type to date. The rhenium centers in 1 are electronically independent from each other, which, however, is not true for the shorter homologues.
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Uwe H. F. Bunz (1996) studied this question.