10 out of 10 for boron’s coordinated effort
10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort - A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. Alexander Boldyrev and colleagues at Utah State University, Logan, working with Lai-Sheng Wang and colleagues at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, point out that to make such highly coordinated molecules in which there are equal distances between the central atom and all peripheral atoms is quite a feat of molecular engineering. It required the chemists to control both electronic and mechanical properties of the molecule.
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