🎁Congratulations to Hubert Schmidbaur @tu_muenchen entering the 90ᵗʰ year of his life today. He championed #molecular #inorganic #chemistry synthesizing iconic #maingroup #compounds of Be, Ga, Si, P and more as well as coordination and #organometallic compounds. His per-#aurated CAu₆ and NAu₆ compounds are still worth marveling at today.

#aurophilicity #beryllium #gallium #silicon #phosphorus