In borane: Structure and bonding of boranes …with one missing vertex; (3) _arachno_- (Greek, meaning “spider’s web”), clusters that are even more open, with boron atoms occupying n contiguous corners of an (n + 2)-cornered polyhedron—i.e., a _closo_-polyhedron with two missing vertices; (4) _hypho_- (Greek, meaning “to weave” or “a net”), the most open clusters, with boron… Read More
chemical bonding
In chemical bonding: Boranes …and some resembling spiderwebs (the _arachno_-boranes). Which type of structure is obtained correlates with the number of valence electrons in the molecule, and the correlation is expressed by Wade’s rules. These rules are empirical, but they can be justified by a consideration of the numbers of 3c,2e and ordinary 2c,2e… Read More
