Silane (SiH4) is found to (partially) decompose at pressures above 50 GPa at room temperature into pure Si and H2. The released hydrogen reacts with surrounding metals in the diamond anvil cell to form metal hydrides. A formation of rhenium hydride is observed after the decomposition of silane. From the data of a previous experimental report (Eremets et al., Science 319, 1506 (2008)), the claim...

Hydrogen and dihydrogen bonding of the fluorinated alcohol (CF(3))(2)CHOH with the transition metal complex WH(CO)(2)(NO)(PMe(3))(2) has been explored by a set of four exemplary density functional theory methods that comprises the BP86, PBE, B3LYP and TPSS functionals. The hydride, nitrosyl and carbonyl ligands of the tungsten complex have been considered as sites of protonation. The main effec...

1. Introduction In the presence of interstitial H atoms, the concentration of M-atom vacancies is enhanced dramatically, forming a defect structure containing superabundant vacancies (SAVs). The diffusivity of M atoms is enhanced accordingly. Physically, these phenomena are the result of the lowering of the formation energy of a vacancy by trapping H atoms [1, 2]. A Monte Carlo calculation on t...

Ten years after the discovery of metallocarboranes, this field of chemistry is still advancing at a rapid pace. While the polyhedral expansion of carboranes has proved to be a general method for the synthesis of metallocarboranes, polymetallic compounds may be synthesized by polyhedral expansion of monometallocarboranes, sometimes producing supraicosahedral complexes. The polyhedral contraction...