Observation of highly stable and symmetric lanthanide octa-boron inverse sandwich complexes [Chemistry]

While boron forms a wide range of metal borides with important industrial applications, there has been relatively little attention devoted to lanthanide boride clusters. Here we report a joint photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemical study on two octa-boron di-lanthanide clusters, Ln2B8− (Ln = La, Pr). We found that these clusters...

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