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O- and/or H-bridged aluminum centers are found in the multinuclear alanes presented here. A peculiarity is the cage compound 1 (crystal structure shown on the right), in which all Al atoms are pentacoordinated. This is the first molecular compound with a tetracoordinated hydride ion.
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Nöth et al. (1997) studied this question.
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