Volume 44, Issue 26 pp. 4026-4028
Communication

[(Ni-Ni-Ni)@(Ge9)2]4−: A Linear Triatomic Nickel Filament Enclosed in a Dimer of Nine-Atom Germanium Clusters

Jose M. Goicoechea

Jose M. Goicoechea

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, Fax: (+1) 574-631-6652

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Slavi C. Sevov Prof.

Slavi C. Sevov Prof.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, Fax: (+1) 574-631-6652

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First published: 17 June 2005
Citations: 135

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (CHE-0446131). We thank Bill Boggess for helping with the mass spectrometry.

Graphical Abstract

Under wraps: A linear nickel filament is “wrapped” inside an eighteen-atom germanium enclosure made of two nine-atom deltahedral clusters (see structure; green Ge, yellow Ni).

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