Attractive metal-metal bonding occurs in a variety of molecules ... The work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Metal dimer complexes with d 8 square planar metallic ...

Now, in a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from The University of Osaka have reported a chemical bond that hadn’t been reported before: complexes of ...

The resulting complex had what is known as square-planar geometry. This means that the nickel is in the center and the ligands are arranged around it at the four compass points, all in the same plane.