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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 international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202000229
Subject(s) - covalent bond , cluster (spacecraft) , realization (probability) , ion , chemical bond , interpretation (philosophy) , bond , chemistry , lewis acids and bases , sodium , crystallography , computer science , organic chemistry , business , mathematics , statistics , programming language , finance , 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 .
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