Wednesday, 27 May 2015

What's the strongest known organic acid?


What's the strongest known organic acid? Is it maybe trifluoromethanesulfonic acid or tautomer of pentacyanocyclopentadiene?


EDIT: Since the question was reactivated I thought about formalising it. I can think of a few categories of compounds: neutral (actually created or only studied in silico) and cationic (also two options). Second Dave's answer and ANM's one do the trick for two groups, but two other options remain (still prefer answers without boro/silico/etc. stuff).




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