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Comment on “Realization of Lewis Basic Sodium Anion in the NaBH 3 − Cluster”
Author(s) -
Pan Sudip,
Frenking Gernot
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.202000229
Subject(s) - covalent bond , cluster (spacecraft) , chemistry , ion , realization (probability) , chemical bond , lewis acids and bases , inorganic chemistry , crystallography , organic chemistry , computer science , statistics , mathematics , programming language , catalysis
We challenge the interpretation of the chemical bond in NaBH 3 − proposed by Liu et al. We argue that NaBH 3 − has an electron‐sharing Na−BH 3 − covalent bond rather than a dative bond Na − →BH 3 .