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Electromerism is an unfamiliar concept to many chemists and refers to molecules that are not conventional isomers but instead differ in how the electrons are distributed across their structure. A novel example of such electromers has now been demonstrated.

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Figure 1: Electromerism in an organometallic compound.

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  1. Thomas Bally is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Pérolles, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. Thomas.Bally@unifr.ch,

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Bally, T. The same but different. Nature Chem 2, 165–166 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.564

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