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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Angew.Chem.Int.Ed.http://doi.org/fz43ft(2012) Sulfate anions (SO42−), which adopt a sulfur-centred tetrahedral form in which each apex is an
oxygen atom, do not often condense into oligosulfates — and when they do they typically form chain-like compounds. Henning Höppe and co-workers at the Universities of Augsburg and Freiburg
in Germany have now prepared an unusual polysulfate anion by reacting together boric acid, potassium sulfate and sulfuric acid. The uncommon topology of the crystalline potassium borosulfate
obtained, K5[B(SO4)4], was revealed by characterization through single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and supported by computational calculations.
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