El donante de enlace de calcógeno que falta: el oxígeno fuertemente polarizado del agua

Qinpeng Zhang1, Ke Luo1, Wei Zhou1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China.

Resumen

Los investigadores crearon una cabina molecular que atrapaba iones de litio y agua, lo que llevaba al agua altamente polarizada. Esta estructura permite nuevos enlaces de calcógeno centrados en O, observados en sistemas de sales hidratadas.

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