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Cover Picture (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 10/1986)
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198608531
Subject(s) - supercluster (genetic) , cover (algebra) , cluster (spacecraft) , icosahedral symmetry , combinatorics , citation , physics , crystallography , chemistry , library science , history , computer science , mathematics , gene , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , phylogenetics , engineering , programming language
The cover shows a model for the structure of novel gold, rhodium, and ruthernium modifications: 13 metal atoms form a cluster; 13 clusters assemble to form the “supercluster” (M 13 ) 13 ; finally, n superclusters come together to form microcrystallites. These clusters were not discovered by chance, but in an investigation into the existence of small closed‐shell clusters lacking protecting peripheral ligands. M 55 clusters with ligands may be degraded electrochemically to naked M 13 clusters; the species (M 13 ) 13 and [(M 13 ) 13 ] n were then identified by means of their Debye‐Scherrer diffraction patterns. Further details are reported by G. Schmid et al. on p. 922.