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Main‐Group‐Metal Clusters Stabilized by N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes
Author(s) -
Wolf Robert,
Uhl Werner
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.200902287
Subject(s) - carbene , cluster (spacecraft) , octahedron , group (periodic table) , chemistry , main group element , ligand (biochemistry) , metal , crystallography , stereochemistry , crystal structure , transition metal , organic chemistry , catalysis , computer science , biochemistry , receptor , programming language
Carbene is key : Utilization of an N‐heterocyclic carbene ligand permitted access to the neutral, octahedral closo cluster 1 , a prototype of a new class of carbene‐stabilized main‐group‐element clusters. Quantum chemical methods lend insight into the bonding situation in such clusters and reveal systematic relationships.