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Bridging the Gap between Coordination and Cluster Compounds: Unusual Bonding Modes for Zinc
Author(s) -
Kays Deborah L.,
Aldridge Simon
Publication year - 2009
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.200900491
Subject(s) - icosahedral symmetry , bridging (networking) , zinc , crystallography , cluster (spacecraft) , atom (system on chip) , molybdenum , chemistry , center (category theory) , materials science , chemical physics , inorganic chemistry , metallurgy , computer science , computer network , embedded system , programming language
Inner virtue : The reaction of [Mo 0 (GaCp*) 6 ] with ZnMe 2 yields the novel multinuclear zinc system [MoZn 12 Me 9 Cp* 3 ] which geometrically resembles a classical Wade–Mingos cluster (with an interstitial molybdenum atom, see picture). In reality, its electronic structure features little direct ZnZn bonding, relying instead on MoZn three‐center, two‐electron bonds spanning the body diagonals of the approximately icosahedral framework.