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Don't worry, CH5+ isn't violating any bonding rules. It doesn't have bonds (maybe)
Since CH5+ gets brought up a lot here, I thought Id share this blurb in Modern Physical Organic Chemistry (Anslyn & Dougherty)
CH5+ may not have "bonds" at all, so no bonding rules are violated! Instead it's just a completely delocalized, quantum mechanical cloud of protons and electrons around carbon. Much better :)
u/Dry-Metal-6593 — 13 days ago