A multicentre-bonded [ZnI]8 cluster with cubic aromaticity

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cui, Ping ^a   Hu, Han Shi ^b   Zhao, Bin ^a   Miller, Jeffery T ^c   Cheng, Peng ^a   Li, Jun ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ANION; ANTIBODY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; OXIDATION; STABILIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84923377885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7331     Document Type: Article

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