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Cover Picture: Structure and Bonding of Pd@[Bi 10 ] 4+ in the Subbromide Bi 14 PdBr 16 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 26/2003)
Author(s) -
Ruck Michael,
Dubenskyy Vitaly,
Söhnel Tilo
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200390506
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , polyhedron , crystallography , fullerene , combinatorics , chemistry , inclusion (mineral) , nanotechnology , stereochemistry , physics , materials science , mathematics , engineering , mineralogy , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering
Endohedral clusters are more common in chemistry than expected, such as the inclusion compounds of fullerene (e.g., He@C 60 , left) and the recently discovered W@Au 12 icosahedron (right). In the Communication by M. Ruck et al. on page 2978 ff., the Pd@[Bi 10 ] 4+ polycation (above) is presented, which has a pentagonal antiprismatic structure, a semiregular polyhedron first described by Archimedes. The relative weakness of the interaction between the Pd center and the arachno ‐[Bi 10 ] 4+ unit is discussed.