Comment on "Realization of Lewis Basic Sodium Anion in the NaBH3 - Cluster".

Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2020)

We challenge the interpretation of the chemical bond in NaBH3 - proposed by Liu et al. We argue that NaBH3 - has an electron-sharing Na-BH3 - covalent bond rather than a dative bond Na- →BH3 .

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