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Norman Greenwood coauthored research on the reactions of boron-hydride clusters with cobalt, rhodium, and iridium complexes. A reported borallyl iridium product illustrates how a cluster can become a multidentate ligand.

The chemistry extends the usual picture of a ligand as a single atom donating one electron pair. Several atoms of a cluster fragment can participate in bonding, so cluster identity and coordination mode must both be specified.^[ref]

Rhodium is a platinum-group transition metal with chemical symbol $\mathrm{Rh}$ and atomic number $45$. Both its metallic surfaces and its coordination complexes are important in catalysis; automotive exhaust treatment is a major application.^[ref]

Different ligand environments can change a rhodium centre's accessible oxidation states and reaction pathways. Thus the relatively unreactive bulk metal and a reactive molecular rhodium catalyst are compatible descriptions of different chemical environments, rather than contradictory properties of the element.