AuB8−: an Au–borozene complex

Wei-Jia Chen; Yang-Yang Zhang; Wan-Lu Li; Hyun Wook Choi; Jun Li; Lai-Sheng Wang

doi:10.1039/D1CC07303F

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AuB₈⁻: an Au–borozene complex†

Wei-Jia Chen,‡^a Yang-Yang Zhang,‡^b Wan-Lu Li,^b Hyun Wook Choi,^a Jun Li

*^bc and Lai-Sheng Wang

*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
E-mail: lai-sheng_wang@brown.edu

^b Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
E-mail: junli@tsinghua.edu.cn

^c Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

Abstract

Photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemistry studies are used to investigate the structure and bonding of AuB₈⁻. Global minimum sturctural searches show that AuB₈⁻ possesses a chair-like structure, which can be viewed as Au⁺ bonded to the edge of the doubly-aromatic B₈²⁻ borozene, Au⁺[η²-B₈²⁻]. Chemical bonding analyses reveal that the AuB₈⁻ is a novel borozene complex with unique Au–borozene bonding.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC07303F
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 06 Jan 2022
Accepted: 09 Feb 2022
First published: 09 Feb 2022

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Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 3134-3137

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AuB₈⁻: an Au–borozene complex

W. Chen, Y. Zhang, W. Li, H. W. Choi, J. Li and L. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 3134 DOI: 10.1039/D1CC07303F

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