Low-temperature synthesis of Zintl compounds with a single-source molecular precursor

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5382, 1998, Pages 1500-1501

  Beswick, Michael A ^a   Choi, Nick ^b   Harmer, Christopher N ^a   Hopkins, Alexander D ^a   McPartlin, Mary ^b   Wright, Dominic S ^a  

^a Department of Chemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE; METAL ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; METALLURGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032483335     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5382.1500     Document Type: Article

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32. We gratefully acknowledge the EPSRC (M.A.B., C.N.H., A.D.H., and M.McP.), the Leverhulme Trust (D.S.W.), the Royal Society (D.S.W.), and Electron Tubes Ruislip, Ltd. (UK) (Case grant for A.D.H.) for financial support.