Borosulfate breaks through
by
Phillip Broadwith, RSC
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last modified
05-11-12 08:36 AM
Copyright 2012, RSC
Henning Höppe, together with a team from the University of Augsburg and Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg in Germany, created potassium borosulfate - K5[B(SO4)4] - by heating potassium sulfate with boric and sulfuric acids. The compound they created comprises a boron atom linked through four oxygen atoms to four sulfate groups and carries a formal 5- charge. More...
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/May/chemistry-boron-borosulfate-anion-cluster.asp
