The name, quad bonds, comes from the research Andrea Hook was doing this summer on quadruple bonds.
Quaduple bonds form when cetain metallic elements form coordinate bonds with ligands.
Andrea Hook has been working on the second floor of the Chemistry building at Queen's to try and make quaduple bonds with titanium, copper and molybdenum. Andrea has just finished her undergraduate degree at Queen's and is moving to U.B.C. to continue graduate studies in organometallic chemistry. Matt Irwin graduated from Central in June, just after experiencing the extraction of his appendix. I made this compound as part of a reserch project at Queen's University for Dr. Gang Wu.