Boron with atomic number 5 is small but powerful - and has amazing properties. Its many unusual bonding and coordination situations lead to beautiful, highly symmetrical structures such as the icosahedron.

To the article about boron on the Fascination Chemistry website

How a boron compound gave a popular detergent its name and some other information about boron is shown in a video from the Periodic Videos series.

Why does a chemistry professor fall in love with the element boron? Christof Niemeyer describes this in the ChemistryViews series " In My Element": Boron