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Planar tetracoordinate carbon versus planar tetracoordinate boron: the case of CB4 and its cation

Zhong-hua Cui1, Maryel Contreras, Yi-hong Ding

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 29, 2011
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