page_title: Chicken wire (chemistry)
section_title: Hexagonal molecular structures
hierarchical_section_title: Chicken wire (chemistry) / Examples / Hexagonal molecular structures
caption_attribution_description: Ball-and-stick model of B(OH)3 molecules in a layer of crystalline boric acid
context_page_description: In chemistry the term chicken wire is used in different contexts. Most of them relate to the similarity of the regular hexagonal patterns found in certain chemical compounds to the mesh structure commonly seen in real chicken wire.
context_section_description: A hexagonal structure that is often described as chicken wire-like can also be found in other types of chemical compounds such as:
  Non-aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons, e.g. steroids like cholesterol
  Flat hexagonal hydrogen bonded trimesic acid (benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid), boric acid, or melamine-cyanuric acid complexes
  Interwoven molecule chains in the inorganic polymer NaAuS 
  Complexes of the protein clathrin
caption: Hydrogen-bonded "chicken wire" of boric acid.
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