All-metal ion mimics carbonate
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Katrina Krämer2017-09-29T11:34:00
Seven month reaction delivers peculiar tin–bismuth anion that is first solution-stable all-metal carbonate analogue
It’s shaped like carbonate, has the same 24 valence electrons and resonance structures, but is made completely out of metal atoms. This is the tin-bismuth anion [SnBi3]5–, the first all-metal carbonate analogue known to exist in solution.