Abstract

Enos Masheija Kiremire

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/31.Special-Issue1.07

During the study of carbonyl clusters using 14n and 4n rules, it was discovered that fragments and atoms could be categorized. This paper presents the categorization of isolobal fragments, molecules and ions using the 14n and 4n rules. In the process of categorization, the conventional periodic table was recreated. A new method of categorizing clusters using fragments and series has been introduced for the first time and this immensely simplifies the categorization of clusters from simple to more complex ones including boranes, carboranes, transition metal carbonyls and metalloboranes. The paper also introduces a simple algebra of cluster series.

carbonyl clusters; metalloboranes; Isolobal Series;

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