Ti8C12: a polytopal molecule with 36 Ti–C bonds
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 15,p. 1182-1185
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39930001182
Abstract
The Ti8C12 molecule, recently observed as a positive ion by Castleman et al., is presented as a cluster with seven possible conformations which have been characterized as local minima by means of ab initio Hartree–Fock calculations.Keywords
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