"Breaking the Rules": A Planar Phosphonium Cation.
Long-standing tenets of a discipline must be questioned in an effort to fully understand the fundamentals of science. This is exemplified by the synthesis of planar-tetracoordinate compounds, such as the square-planar phosphonium ion 1 by Driess et al., which provide exceptions to van't Hoff - Le Bel rules.
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