Nakanishi Warô, Hayashi Satoko, Arai Takamitsu
Department of Material Science and Chemistry, Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, 930 Sakaedani, Wakayama 640-8510, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2002 Oct 21(20):2416-7. doi: 10.1039/b206137f.
The four sulfur atoms in bis[8-(phenylthio)naphthyl]-1,1'-disulfide are demonstrated to align linearly by the X-ray crystallographic analysis, where the linear S4 alignment is stabilized by the four-centre six-electron interaction.