University of Würzburg

New Capabilities

Home institution of the team that isolated the oxoboranes

Chemists have chased oxoboranes, molecules with a triple bond between boron and oxygen, since at least the early 1960s. They could only be glimpsed under extreme conditions or inferred from side products. Now a team at the University of Würzburg has made three of them as orange and yellow solids that sit in a flask and can be studied.

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