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Cover Picture: Homocatenation of Aluminum: Alkane‐like Structures of Li 2 Al 2 H 6 and Li 3 Al 3 H 8 (Chem. Eur. J. 14/2015)
Author(s) -
Gish J. Tyler,
Popov Ivan A.,
Boldyrev Alexander I.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201590052
Subject(s) - alkane , chemistry , crystallography , molecule , supramolecular chemistry , synthon , materials science , crystal structure , organic chemistry , hydrocarbon
A theoretical prediction of a new class of stable aluminum homocatenated Li n Al n H 2 n +2 compounds is reported by A. I. Boldyrev and co‐workers in their Communication on page 5307 ff. For the first time it has been shown that aluminum atoms are capable to homocatenate with the formation of alkane‐like species. The wizard shown in the center of the cover picture symbolizes a chemist synthesizing molecules of “aluminum homocatenated ethane and propane” based on the idea of electronic transmutation.