Chemists synthesize and characterize novel helically chiral oxonium ion with a stereogenic oxygen atom center

A team of chemists at the University of Oxford, working with a colleague from Colorado State University, has synthesized and characterized a novel, helically chiral oxonium ion with a stereogenic oxygen atom center for the first time. In their research, reported in the journal Nature, the group studied oxonium ions to come up with a way to create a pentacyclic oxonium salt with a chiral center.