Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Anion stabilised hypercloso-hexaalane Al6H6

  • Simon J. Bonyhady,
  • David Collis,
  • Nicole Holzmann,
  • Alison J. Edwards,
  • Ross O. Piltz,
  • Gernot Frenking,
  • Andreas Stasch,
  • Cameron Jones

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05504-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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While polyhedral boron hydride complexes have found application in a number of diverse fields, the isolation of stable aluminium analogues remains highly challenging. Here, Jones and colleagues demonstrate that reduction of an amidinato-aluminum(III) hydride complex with magnesium(I) dimers affords stable aluminium(I) hydride compounds.