Do All-Metal Antiaromatic Clusters Exist?

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 46, 2003, Pages 13930-13931

  Chen, Zhongfang ^a,b   Corminboeuf, Clémence ^c   Heine, Thomas ^d   Bohmann, Jon ^e   Von Ragué Schleyer, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BROMIDE; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; METAL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON; GAS ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MAGNETISM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242582922     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0361392     Document Type: Article

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