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Inside Cover: Metal–Oxygen Isopolyhedra Assembled into Fullerene Topologies (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 15/2008)
Author(s) -
Forbes Tori Z.,
McAlpin J. Gregory,
Murphy Rachel,
Burns Peter C.
Publication year - 2008
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.200890063
Subject(s) - fullerene , hexagonal crystal system , uranyl , polyhedron , cluster (spacecraft) , topology (electrical circuits) , carbon fibers , metal , materials science , crystallography , cover (algebra) , oxygen , nanotechnology , chemistry , combinatorics , mathematics , computer science , organic chemistry , uranium , composite material , composite number , programming language , metallurgy , mechanical engineering , engineering
Metal–oxygen cage clusters with fullerene topologies can be assembled from uranyl hexagonal bipyramids under certain conditions, as described by P. C. Burns and co‐workers in their Communication on page 2824 ff. A cluster containing 50 polyhedra has the same topology as the fullerene C 50 Cl 10 . Synthesis of a cluster containing 40 uranyl hexagonal bipyramids demonstrates that the inclusion of topological squares in addition to pentagons and hexagons gives access to topological isomers that are not possible for carbon fullerenes.