Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

Paper in Angewandte Chemie

As the result of international cooperation with the participation of NIIC researches Alexander V. Virovets and Eugenia V. Peresypkina the article is published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. (IF 13.455)

C. Schwarzmaier, A. Schindler, C. Heindl, S. Scheuermayer, E.V. Peresypkina, A.V. Virovets, M. Neumeier, R. Gschwind, M. Scheer.«Stabilization of Tetrahedral P₄ and As₄ Molecules as Guests in Polymeric and Spherical Environments»Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, V.52, Issue 41, P. 10896–10899DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307186

The cover of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, V.52, Issue 41: Stabilization of Tetrahedral P₄ and As₄ Molecules

A new chapter in the history of arsenic has been opened up by M. Scheer et. al. in their Communication. Long after the discovery of grey and yellow arsenic by Albertus Magnus and Anton Bettendorff, the structure of As₄ has finally been described by X-ray crystallographic techniques. Highly reactive yellow arsenic was embedded in a polymeric matrix, which minimizes molecular motion and therefore allows the determination of the As–As bond length.