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Chemistry World February 6, 2012 David Bradley	10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel.
Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan	First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China.
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Elusive sigma aromaticity captured Chemists in the US have created a unique transition metal hydride in which the hydrogens form a five-membered aromatic ring, something that had been theorized, but until now never seen.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Manisha Lalloo	Ultra-pure boron structure discovered Scientists have characterised a new form of elemental boron - a notoriously hard element to synthesise in a pure form - and found that ionic bonding helps hold the structure together.
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 Andy Extance	Carbon clusters score lucky seven US and Chinese chemists say that they've calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally.
Chemistry World March 2, 2015 Andy Extance	Chemists zinc up 'aromatic' metal cubes Researchers in China and the US have synthesized polyzinc clusters that have pushed back the boundaries of the kind of aromatic structures chemists can make.
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards	Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth.
Chemistry World January 19, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Happy Families for Aluminium Chemists have discovered that aluminium - a notoriously anti-social element compared with its sister boron - may in fact form an unexpected family of hydride clusters.
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Flattening carbon UK researchers have managed to synthesise a molecule with an almost planar four-coordinate carbon atom bonded to two lithium atoms and bulky organic ligands.
Chemistry World April 9, 2015 Simon Hadlington	Superatom mimics for rare earth elements Researchers in the US believe they may be able to create mimics of rare earth elements by making new 'superatoms' composed of atomic clusters of other metals.
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Anisha Ratan	Boroles get a stability boost Scientists from Germany have reported a breakthrough in borole stability, using bulky fluoromesityl groups, which could help these anti-aromatic molecules realize their potential in optoelectronic devices.
Chemistry World July 7, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Buckyball boron Systematic structure-searching calculations performed by scientists in China have put forward an all-boron analogue of fullerene: B 38.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Water spilt with aluminium Aluminium clusters' ability to split water molecules and release hydrogen is dictated by the geometric arrangement of active sites on their surface, US scientists have discovered.
Chemistry World June 5, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Boron nitride Pringle predicted to be frequent flapper Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US, were so inspired after reading about the graphene Pringles reported last year that they decided to investigate equivalents made from boron and nitrogen.
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Chemistry World June 14, 2012 David Bradley	Tripling up on boron bonds Carbon and nitrogen are well known for their triple bonds, but making stable compounds with a triple bond between two boron atoms hadn't been achieved despite the computational possibilities. Until now.
Chemistry World January 19, 2011 Yuandi Li	Carbon dioxide clusters cracked by IR Canadian scientists have, for the first time, been able to identify spectroscopically carbon dioxide clusters that could provide valuable information on intermolecular interactions.
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell	Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond.
Chemistry World May 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Purely inorganic aromatic ion synthesized Scientists in the US have successfully synthesized an aromatic ion made from only nitrogen and phosphorus. The anion is a rare example of a stable aromatic species containing no carbon atoms.
Chemistry World April 19, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Superhard Material Made at Ambient Pressure Inorganic chemists in the U.S. have synthesized a material that rivals the hardness of diamond, without needing to use extremely high pressure.
Chemistry World November 12, 2015 Tim Wogan	Flat boron first looks promising for nano-electronics The super hard material, which was formed by two-stage chemical vapor deposition, has unusual properties for a two-dimensional material that could potentially make it very useful in nano-electronics.
Chemistry World January 29, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Silicon goes aromatic Chemists in the UK have constructed a structural analogue of benzene made from silicon atoms. The molecule is not flat like benzene, but it reveals a new type of aromatic stabilisation.
Chemistry World October 5, 2006 Mark Peplow	Boron Shows Its Negative Side A molecule that hosts a negatively-charged boron atom could prove to be an exciting addition to the chemist's toolbox, according to researchers who have isolated the anion as its lithium salt.
Chemistry World February 11, 2015 Jon Evans	Calculations predict pentagonal graphene Scientists in China have proposed the existence of a novel 2D allotrope of carbon made up of pentagons, which they have dubbed 'penta-graphene'.
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 Katrina Kramer	Largest Mobius molecule synthesized Researchers from Korea and Japan have put a new twist on aromaticity, synthesizing the largest Mobius aromatic molecule to date.
Chemistry World May 16, 2006 Jon Evans	Buckyballs Worth Their Weight in Gold A team of chemists and physicists has uncovered evidence for the existence of hollow buckyball-like cages made of gold.
Chemistry World March 2010 Philip Ball	Column: The crucible Superatoms reinforce the notion that chemistry is more about electrons than elements, says the author
Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
Chemistry World March 2011	Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'.
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Chemistry World May 16, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Anions enjoy a taste of pi European researchers have captured the moment when an anion interacts with the pi electron cloud of an aromatic molecule, something that has been known to occur but never seen at work.
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple?
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans	World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic.
Chemistry World April 9, 2010 Mike Brown	Going for silver: green plastic production Scientists in the US have identified a new class of catalyst based on subnanometer clusters of three silver atoms that could provide a greener route to propylene oxide - a key intermediate used to make thousands of everyday products
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball	X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules.
Chemistry World March 19, 2009 Manisha Lalloo	Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings
Chemistry World September 6, 2007 Tom Westgate	Probe Maps Individual Atoms in Semiconductor Troublesome clusters of dopant atoms have been 'seen' for the first time. Researchers have drawn up the first 3D maps of the individual atoms in a semiconductor.
Chemistry World December 14, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Pico-gold clusters break catalysis record Chemists in Spain have shown that small clusters of gold atoms are excellent inorganic catalysts with record-breaking efficiency.
Chemistry World July 8, 2011 Mike Brown	Pi-stacking better without the aromatics? Scientists in the US have discovered that electrons confined to their double bonds can sometimes deliver stronger pi-stacking interactions than those roaming free in aromatic systems.
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Chemistry World July 29, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Archetypal Lewis Acid Borane Turned Into a Base Chemists in the US and Germany have achieved the remarkable feat of transforming a borane, an archetypal electron-accepting Lewis acid, into an electron-donating Lewis base.
Chemistry World June 5, 2006 Simon Hadlington	The Attraction of Gold for Gold Researchers are unravelling some of the fundamental chemistry surrounding a key but poorly understood aspect of the coordination chemistry of gold -- the weak `aurophilic' interactions between adjacent atoms of Au(I) in organic complexes.
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Chemistry World August 18, 2014 Laura Fisher	Radiolabels help evaluate emerging cancer treatment Researchers in Spain have come up with a way to track the biodistribution of a boron cluster complex used to prepare boron-carrier drugs for a prospective cancer treatment called boron neutron capture therapy.
Chemistry World July 20, 2009 Hayley Birch	Fuel cell catalysts go sub-nano Japanese researchers have created sub-nano scale platinum clusters with high catalytic activity for use in fuel cell applications.
Chemistry World July 29, 2013 Jennifer Newton	240 boron atoms in a single molecular species The unique supramolecular cuboctahedron contains 240 boron atoms and was synthesized by Chad Mirkin and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, via coordination-driven assembly.
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington	New method for aromatic coupling Chemists in Switzerland have developed a way to couple aromatic rings through the Friedel-Crafts mechanism - something many people would have believed impossible.