Strain and structures in the silicon analogues of tetrahedrane, prismane, and cubane. A theoretical study
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 2,p. 60-62
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39870000060
Abstract
Ab initio calculations show that the strain energies of the silicon compounds, unlike the carbon case, decrease in the order tetrasilatetrahedrane > hexasilaprismane > octasilacubane, octasilacubane being markedly less strained than cubane.Keywords
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