The emergence of a set of simple yet powerful electron counting rules following a classic paper by Wade published in 1971 in J. Chem. Soc. D has transformed the way chemists think about the structures of clusters with delocalised skeletal bonding.
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The significance and impact of Wade's rules
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Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
E-mail: a.j.welch@hw.ac.uk
E-mail: a.j.welch@hw.ac.uk
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3615-3616
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC00069A
Received 04 Jan 2013, Accepted 13 Mar 2013
First published online 14 Mar 2013
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