THE ANALYSIS OF METALLOCARBORANES

The recent discovery of skeletal numbers has made it possible to analyze and categorize a wide range of chemical clusters. They included among others, boranes, metalloboranes, Zintl ions, matryoshka clusters, transition metal carbonyls and golden clusters. However, there is one field of clusters that have not yet received proper attention by the New Cluster Theory approach. This book focusses mainly on the analysis of metallocarboranes clusters using skeletal numbers and the ring theory concept. The ring theory concept looks at cluster ligands such as C4H4, C5H5, C6H6, C7H7, and C8H8 in terms of skeletal elements such as carbon(C) and (H) ligands in these examples, and not simply electron donors. The electron donor potential is naturally revealed in terms of overall cluster linkages K=n+t where n= primary linkages and t=secondary linkages. Finally, the clusters in this book have been divided into groups based on the number of rings from one ring to five ring systems.