Hypovalent Cluster Structures

Teach yourself to solve structural cluster problems using Wade's Rules. This book offers you the chance to engage deeply with the process of relating cluster structures to their skeletal electron counts. Beginning simply, the book challenges you with a sequence of problems on parent shapes, closo-nido-arachno state, metal fragments, and reactivity. Short interludes deal closely with characterising cluster isomers using NMR spectroscopy.