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Oblate deltahedra in dimetallaboranes: geometry and chemical bonding
1Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA. rbking@chem.uga.edu
Inorganic Chemistry
|September 27, 2006
Abstract:
A new series of nonspherical and very oblate deltahedra, conveniently called the oblatocloso deltahedra, is found in dimetallaboranes among which the dirhenaboranes Cp2Re2B(n-2)H(n-2) (8
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