Spherical trihedral metallo-borospherenes

Teng-Teng Chen; Wan-Lu Li; Wei-Jia Chen; Xiao-Hu Yu; Xin-Ran Dong; Jun Li; Lai-Sheng Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16532-x

Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Spherical trihedral metallo-borospherenes

Teng-Teng Chen,
Wan-Lu Li,
Wei-Jia Chen,
Xiao-Hu Yu,
Xin-Ran Dong,
Jun Li,
Lai-Sheng Wang

Affiliations

Teng-Teng Chen: Department of Chemistry, Brown University
Wan-Lu Li: Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
Wei-Jia Chen: Department of Chemistry, Brown University
Xiao-Hu Yu: Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Catalysis, School of Chemical & Environment Sciences, Shaanxi University of Technology
Xin-Ran Dong: Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology
Jun Li: Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
Lai-Sheng Wang: Department of Chemistry, Brown University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16532-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Borospherenes are the boron-based analogs of fullerene cages. Here, the authors report a class of Ln3B18 – metallo-borospherenes with unusual spherical trihedron geometry, in which the lanthanide atoms surprisingly form a part of the cage surface.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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