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Achim Müller1, Erich Krickemeyer1, Hartmut Bögge1, Marc Schmidtmann1, Frank Peters1.
Abstract
Plato and Kepler would have been pleased. Despite the large number of atoms present the cluster anion 1 resembles an icosahedral-type structure. This represents definitively an unprecedented event in chemistry! The structure is made up of 12 {Mo11 } fragments such that the fivefold symmetry axes are retained in the resulting spherical object. As an inscribed icosahedron can be recognized in the spherical shell of 1 (see picture), similarities with Kepler's famous shell model of the cosmos can be seen. © 1998 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Fed. Rep. of Germany.Entities:
Keywords: Cage compounds; Clusters; Fullerenes; Polyoxometalates; Supramolecular chemistry
Year: 1998 PMID: 29711296 DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19981231)37:24<3359::AID-ANIE3359>3.0.CO;2-J
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336