Comment on “Realization of Lewis Basic Sodium Anion in the NaBH3− Cluster”

Sudip Pan; Gernot Frenking

doi:10.1002/anie.202000229

Comment on “Realization of Lewis Basic Sodium Anion in the NaBH₃⁻ Cluster”

Sudip Pan, Gernot Frenking

School of Chemistry and Moleculai Engineering

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8756-8759
Number of pages	4
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	59
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000229
State	Published - 2 Jun 2020

Keywords

bonding analysis
dative bonding
electron-sharing bonding
energy decomposition analysis

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