Sorry, couldn't resist the title but it one sense it is somewhat accurate.
Bacteria (and plants) that use what is called photosystem II of the Z scheme to split water (pretty much all the Oxygen we breath is a result of this) have the Manganese Center...
![[Image: 620px-Manganese_cluster.svg.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Ff%2Fff%2FManganese_cluster.svg%2F620px-Manganese_cluster.svg.png)
yet this extremely small molecule which could easily solve all the world's energy needs forever (or until mankind ceases to exist) is unable to be made by any process known to man as of yet. In that sense, it is the true unobtanium.
Bacteria (and plants) that use what is called photosystem II of the Z scheme to split water (pretty much all the Oxygen we breath is a result of this) have the Manganese Center...
yet this extremely small molecule which could easily solve all the world's energy needs forever (or until mankind ceases to exist) is unable to be made by any process known to man as of yet. In that sense, it is the true unobtanium.
