TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond the icosahedron
T2 - The first 13-vertex carborane
AU - Burke, Anthony
AU - Ellis, David
AU - Giles, Barry T.
AU - Hodson, Bruce E.
AU - Macgregor, Stuart A.
AU - Rosair, Georgina M.
AU - Welch, Alan J.
PY - 2003/1/13
Y1 - 2003/1/13
N2 - Cornering the 13th vertex: The first 13-vertex carborane (see picture, B: brown, C: gray, H: white) has been prepared by a methodology that can in principle be applied repeatedly, leading to 14-, 15-, 16-, ... vertex carboranes in the future. The 13-vertex species has a henicosahedral geometry, not the docosahedral one expected, but the two forms are found to be very close in energy by DFT calculations.
AB - Cornering the 13th vertex: The first 13-vertex carborane (see picture, B: brown, C: gray, H: white) has been prepared by a methodology that can in principle be applied repeatedly, leading to 14-, 15-, 16-, ... vertex carboranes in the future. The 13-vertex species has a henicosahedral geometry, not the docosahedral one expected, but the two forms are found to be very close in energy by DFT calculations.
KW - Boron
KW - Carboranes
KW - Density functional calculations
KW - Structure elucidation
KW - Synthetic methods
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037434140&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/anie.200390085
DO - 10.1002/anie.200390085
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037434140
SN - 1433-7851
VL - 42
SP - 225
EP - 228
JO - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
JF - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
IS - 2
ER -