Issue 35, 2013

The significance and impact of Wade's rules

Abstract

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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Article information

Article type
Viewpoint
Submitted
04 Jan 2013
Accepted
13 Mar 2013
First published
14 Mar 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3615-3616

The significance and impact of Wade's rules

A. J. Welch, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 3615 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC00069A

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