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Application of the Duality Principle to Chiral Icosahedral Metal Complexes
Author(s) -
Rassat André
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200390175
Subject(s) - icosahedral symmetry , duality (order theory) , lanthanum , chirality (physics) , barium , metal , strontium , symmetry (geometry) , physics , theoretical physics , materials science , crystallography , condensed matter physics , chemistry , mathematics , pure mathematics , quantum mechanics , inorganic chemistry , symmetry breaking , geometry , spontaneous symmetry breaking , explicit symmetry breaking , metallurgy , nuclear physics
By application of the duality principle , the type of chirality recently reported in icosahedral barium, strontium, or lanthanum complexes can be found in a tetrafluorododecahedrane of the same T symmetry (see scheme).