Flattening the B6H62- octahedron. Ab initio prediction of a new family of planar all-boron aromatic molecules

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 10786-10787

  Alexandrova, Anastassia N ^a   Birch, K Alexander ^a   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BORANE DERIVATIVE; BORON DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; THEORY;

EID: 0042233979     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0361906     Document Type: Article

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