AuB 8 - : an Au-borozene complex.
Wei-Jia ChenYang-Yang ZhangWan-Lu LiHyun Wook ChoiJun LiLai-Sheng WangPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)
Photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemistry studies are used to investigate the structure and bonding of AuB 8 - . Global minimum sturctural searches show that AuB 8 - possesses a chair-like structure, which can be viewed as Au + bonded to the edge of the doubly-aromatic B 8 2- borozene, Au + [η 2 -B 8 2- ]. Chemical bonding analyses reveal that the AuB 8 - is a novel borozene complex with unique Au-borozene bonding.