“True” double bonds between tetravalent silicon and oxygen are present in molecular SiO2, now isolated by a novel matrix technique. This was accomplished by cocondensation of SiO (from a Knudsen cell) and O (generated by microwave excitation) in argon on a cold surface.
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Hansgeorg Schnöckel (1978) studied this question.
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