A strongly twisted SiSi bond with resemblance to a buckled dimer in an unexpected isomer of hexasilabenzene.
Helmer, Joschua; Hepp, Alexander; Lips, Felicitas; Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 51 (2022) 3254–3262; doi:10.1039/d2dt00259k

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 A strongly twisted Si&#xE001;Si bond with resemblance to a buckled dimer
 in an unexpected isomer of hexasilabenzene.
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