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Cover Image, Volume 36, Issue 6
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.23866
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , valence (chemistry) , valence electron , citation , planar , computer science , crystallography , chemistry , electron , physics , world wide web , computer graphics (images) , engineering , nuclear physics , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering
A large‐scale global search of pentaatomic planar tetracoordinate silicon (ptSi) with 14 valence electrons is performed. A total of 129 molecular systems SiX n Y m q (n+m=4; q=0,±1,‐2; X, Y=main group elements from H to Br) are considered, among which 50 systems possess a ptSi structure and 9 systems have the global minimum ptSi. On page 355 (DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23792 ), Jing Xu and Yi‐hong Ding propose two strategies to generalize the global 14e‐ptSi; 1) introducing the alkaline/alkaline‐earth elements and 2) breaking the peripheral bonding.