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Achim Müller1, Erich Krickemeyer1, Hartmut Bögge1
1Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie I der Universität, Postfach 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld (Germany), Fax: (+49) 521-106-6003.
Abstract:
Plato and Kepler would have been pleased. Despite the large number of atoms present the cluster anion 1 resembles an icosahedral-type structure. This represents definitively an unprecedented event in chemistry! The structure is made up of 12 {Mo11 } fragments such that the fivefold symmetry axes are retained in the resulting spherical object. As an inscribed icosahedron can be recognized in the spherical shell of 1 (see picture), similarities with Kepler's famous shell model of the cosmos can be seen.
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