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50th Anniversary of Electron Counting Paradigms for Polyhedral Molecules

Bonding in Clusters, Intermetallics and Intermetalloids

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Editors:
  1. D. Michael P. Mingos

    1. Chemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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  • Celebrates 50 Year Anniversary Ken Wade’s 1971 Paper in Chemical Communications
  • Contributions from leading international chemistry academics
  • Demonstrates how these rules have guided chemistry research

Part of the book series: Structure and Bonding (STRUCTURE, volume 188)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Electron Counting Rules for Gold Clusters Which Are Stereochemically Non-rigid and Exhibit Skeletal Isomerism

    • D. Michael P. Mingos
    Pages 1-67

  3. Electron Counting in Ligated High Nuclearity Late Transition Metal Clusters

    • Franck Gam, Jianyu Wei, Samia Kahlal, Jean-Yves Saillard, Jean-François Halet
    Pages 69-102

  4. Binary Zintl Anions Involving Group 13–15 (Semi-)Metal Atoms, and the Relationship of Their Structures to Electron Count

    • Fuxing Pan, Bastian Weinert, Stefanie Dehnen
    Pages 103-148

  5. Molecules Meet Solids: From Wade–Mingos Clusters to Intermetalloid Clusters

    • Wilhelm Klein, Annette Schier, Thomas F. Fässler
    Pages 149-195

  6. Structure and Bonding of Group 14 Clusters: Wade’s Rules and Beyond

    • Jing-Xuan Zhang, Fu Kit Sheong, Zhenyang Lin
    Pages 197-257
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About this book

The 50 Year Anniversary of the development of electron counting paradigms is celebrated in two volumes of Structure and Bonding. Volume 2 covers applications to metal and metalloid clusters of the transition and post-transition elements

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    D. Michael P. Mingos

About the editor

Michael Mingos was born in Basra, Iraq in 1944 and was educated in England (Manchester, B.Sc. in Chemistry 1965) and University of Sussex (D.Phil, 1968). He has held academic posts at QMC, Oxford (Keble College), Imperial College, St Edmund Hall (Principal,1999-2009). His theoretical research has resulted in generalisations which have greatly influenced the development and teaching of modern inorganic chemistry. Specifically the Wade-Mingos Rules which rationalise the structures of polyhedral inorganic molecules and the Green-Davies-Mingos Rules, which account for some of the nucleophilic reactions  of organometallic compounds. His group has experimentally verified some of his theoretical predictions, for example an icosahedral molecule containing gold atoms -which is relevant for understanding the metal’s nano-technological possibilities. He has also contributed to the understanding of the bonding properties of nitric oxide, an important cellular signalling molecule involved in many physiological processes and pioneered the acceleration of chemical reactions using microwave energy. He was elected the Royal Society in 1992 and the European Academy of Sciences in 2017. He holds honorary doctorates from Sussex and Manchester Universities and received many prizes – the most recent was the Blaise Pascal Medal in 2017.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: 50th Anniversary of Electron Counting Paradigms for Polyhedral Molecules

  • Book Subtitle: Bonding in Clusters, Intermetallics and Intermetalloids

  • Editors: D. Michael P. Mingos

  • Series Title: Structure and Bonding

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84871-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84870-5Published: 26 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84873-6Published: 27 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84871-2Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 0081-5993

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-8550

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 257

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

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