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MIT chemists discover and isolate a new boron-oxygen molecule


MIT chemists discovered a new type of peroxide containing boron. The molecule, called a dioxaborirane, represents a breakthrough in a field where such structures were long-proposed but considered too unstable to actually isolate.

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