Wei Lu

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Led an independent isolation of free oxoboranes

Chemists have chased oxoboranes, molecules with a triple bond between boron and oxygen, since at least the early 1960s. They could only be glimpsed under extreme conditions or inferred from side products. Now a team at the University of Würzburg has made three of them as orange and yellow solids that can be isolated and studied; the work was published in Nature Chemistry on 27 October 2026.

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