{"id":209768,"date":"2025-03-26T06:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nickel0-and-boron-together-at-last-in-square-planar-complexes"},"modified":"2025-03-26T06:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:16:51","slug":"nickel0-and-boron-together-at-last-in-square-planar-complexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nickel0-and-boron-together-at-last-in-square-planar-complexes","title":{"rendered":"Nickel(0) and boron\u2014together at last in square-planar complexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nickel0-and-boron-together-at-last-in-square-planar-complexes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The arrangement of small molecules\u2014known as ligands\u2014around transition metal atoms affects how the metal atoms behave. This is important because transition metals are used as catalysts in the synthesis of a wide range of important materials.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.4c15892\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, researchers from the University of Osaka have reported a chemical bond that hadn\u2019t been reported before: complexes of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nickel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nickel<\/a>, a metal, with simple <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ligands\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ligands<\/a> containing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/boron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">boron<\/a>, a non-metal.<\/p>\n<p>Transition metals are known to form complexes with ligands containing atoms from group 13 elements, including aluminum, gallium, and indium. These are known as Z-type ligands, and they can accept electrons from a metal. However, boron, the smallest element in group 13, has only been shown to do this with the support of additional ligands that help approach metals to the boron center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrangement of small molecules\u2014known as ligands\u2014around transition metal atoms affects how the metal atoms behave. This is important because transition metals are used as catalysts in the synthesis of a wide range of important materials. Now, in a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from the University of Osaka [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}