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Bare group 10 metal atoms as vertices in polyhedral metallaboranes: spherical aromaticity in the icosahedral MB11H11 systems.
Amr A A Attia, Alexandru Lupan, R Bruce King
Published: 202610.1039/d5cp04106f
Abstract
The MBn-1Hn-1 (M = Ni, Pd, Pt; n = 5 to 14) clusters with bare group 10 metal vertices have been examined by density functional theory. The lowest energy structures are found to be the corresponding closo deltahedra. This suggests that the group 10 m…
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