[1] Stable quadruple bonds are most common among the transition metals in the middle of the d-block, such as rhenium, tungsten, technetium, molybdenum and chromium.
[2] Chromium(II) acetate, Cr2(μ-O2CCH3)4(H2O)2, was the first chemical compound containing a quadruple bond to be synthesized.
[3] The first crystallographic study of a compound with a quadruple bond was provided by Soviet chemists for salts of Re2Cl2−8.
[6] Many other compounds with quadruple bonds between transition metal atoms have been described, often by Cotton and his coworkers.
A 2012 paper by S. Shaik et al. suggests that a quadruple bond exists in dicarbon,[8] but this is disputed.