The simplistic methylbismuth dication has been captured only by the aid of monodentate tetrahydrofuran (thf) ligands, [BiMe(thf)5]2+. The hexacoordinate species shows a very unusual pentagonal pyrami...

The crystal structures of monoprotonated oxalyl chloride and the chloro­carbonyl cation are elucidated for the first time. Both display very short C—Cl bonds with a strong double-bond character.

Taurine is one of the most common natural substances, despite its behaviour under stongly acidic condtions, which was first uncovered with the determination of the crystal structure of 2-sulfo­ethyl­ammonium hexa­fluorido­anti­monate. We report further protonation, forming the sul­fo­nium ion, resulting from a tem­per­a­ture-dependent reaction of taurine with the superacidic system HF/AsF5.

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Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain