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The high electronegativity of halogens sees them form binary compounds with virtually every element. Such compounds populate many a chemical inventory because they exhibit diverse reactivity. For example, boron trihalides BX3 are classic Lewis acids that readily form tetrahedral adducts with suitable Lewis bases, including halides. Despite this, only scant evidence exists for the hexahalodiborates [B2X6]2−, which were notable absentees from an otherwise well-chartered boron–halogen chemical space. Writing in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Guillaume Bélanger-Chabot and Holger Braunschweig have now filled this gap by reporting the structures of four such hexahalodiborates.

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