Carbyne — the third allotropic form of carbon

The history of the discovery of carbyne, the chemical and physical methods used to obtain it, the analysis of its structure, and some of its properties are briefly considered. The prospects for its practical applications are discussedThis publication is based on a number of works on carbyne submitted for the Russian State Prize in the field of science and technology in 1993; performed at the A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences and the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 450–463, March, 1993.