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Teng-Teng Chen1, Wan-Lu Li2, Jun Li2,3
1Department of Chemistry , Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island 02912 , USA .
Abstract:
Despite the importance of bulk lanthanide borides, nanoclusters of lanthanide and boron have rarely been investigated. Here we show that lanthanide-boron binary clusters, La2B -, can form a new class of inverse-sandwich complexes, [Ln(η -B )Ln]- (x = 7-9). Joint experimental and theoretical studies reveal that the monocyclic B rings in the inverse sandwiches display similar bonding, consisting of three delocalized σ and three delocalized π bonds. Such monocyclic boron rings do not exist for bare boron clusters, but they are stabilized by the sandwiching lanthanide atoms. An electron counting rule is proposed to predict the sizes of the B ring that can form stable inverse sandwiches. A unique (d-p)δ bond is found to play important roles in the stability of all three inverse-sandwich complexes.
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