Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Octatetraynyl radical (C8H) is an organic free radical with eight carbon atoms linked in a chain with alternating single bonds and triple bonds.In 2007 negatively charged octatetraynyl was detected in Galactic molecular source TMC-1 making it the second type of anion to be found in the interstellar medium (after Hexatriynyl radical) and the largest such molecule detected to date.
