Persistent covalency and planarity in the BnAl 6-n2- and LiBnAl6-n- (n = 0-6) cluster ions

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2046-2051

  Huynh, Mioy T ^a   Alexandrova, Anastassia N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters; Dynamics; Excited States

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ORBITAL; B ATOMS; CHEMICAL BONDINGS; CLUSTER IONS; CLUSTERS; COVALENCIES; COVALENT BONDING; LITHIUM SALTS; PLANARITY; SMALL CLUSTERS; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES;

ALUMINUM; ATOMS; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

COVALENT BONDS;

EID: 80051925793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200865u     Document Type: Article

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