Deltahedral clusters
From CAR's third-year course on isolobal relationships and bonding (lecture notes).
Wikipedia: Boranes, Wade's Rules, Cluster chemistry, CAR links
Key to buttons:
line = polyhedral skeleton, displayed as lines
sites = symmetrically equivalent vertices shown the same colour
bs = ball-and-stick model, sf = space-filling model
xbs = ball-and-stick model of the bulk crystal structure
core:
B4Cl4
J. Chem. Phys. (1953) 21, 172
Acta Cryst. (1953) 6, 547–550
Trigonal bipyramid (5 vertices)
core:
(BR)3(CR′)2
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2002), 1293–1300
Octahedron (6 vertices)
core:
whole:
[B6H6]2− from Li2[B6H6]
Phys. Rev. B (2006) 74, 075110
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (1999), 1831–1846
Pentagonal bipyramid (7 vertices)
core:
whole:
[B7Br7]2− from [Py2CH2][B6H6]
Z. Naturforsch., B: Chem. Sci. (1996) 51, 744
Triangular dodecahedron (8 vertices)
core:
[B8H8]2− from [Zn(NH3)4][B8H8]
Inorg. Chem. (1969) 8, 2771–2774
Tricapped trigonal prism (9 vertices)
core:
[B9Br9]2− from [Bu4N]2[B9Br9]
Z. anorg. allg. Chem. (1999) 625, 1059–1072
Bicapped square antiprism (10 vertices)
core:
[B10H10]2− from [Me3NH]2[B10H10]
Koord. Khim. (1992) 18, 387
Z. Krist. (2005) 220, 142–146
Octadecahedron (11 vertices)
core:
[B11H11]2− from [BnNEt3]2[B11H11]
Z. anorg. allg. Chem. (1999) 625, 1193–1200
J. Organomet. Chem. (2003) 680, 301–311
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1973) 95, 2384–2386
Inorg. Chem. (1978) 17, 166–167
Icosahedron (12 vertices)
core:
[B12H12]2− from Cs2[B12H12]
Z. anorg. allg. Chem. (2000) 626, 323–325
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