Metallaaromatic chemistry: history and development

D Chen, Y Hua, H Xia - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the prediction of the existence of metallabenzenes in 1979, metallaaromatic chemistry
has developed rapidly, due to its importance in both experimental and theoretical fields …

Four decades of the chemistry of planar hypercoordinate compounds

LM Yang, E Ganz, Z Chen, ZX Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The idea of planar tetracoordinate carbon (ptC) was considered implausible for a hundred
years after 1874. Examples of ptC were then predicted computationally and realized …

A forgotten topological index

B Furtula, I Gutman - Journal of mathematical chemistry, 2015 - Springer
In 1972, within a study of the structure-dependency of total π π-electron energy (EE), it was
shown that EE depends on the sum of squares of the vertex degrees of the molecular graph …

A crystalline tri-thorium cluster with σ-aromatic metal–metal bonding

JT Boronski, JA Seed, D Hunger, AW Woodward… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Metal–metal bonding is a widely studied area of chemistry,–, and has become a mature field
spanning numerous d transition metal and main group complexes,,–. By contrast, actinide …

φ-Aromaticity in prismatic {Bi6}-based clusters

B Peerless, A Schmidt, YJ Franzke, S Dehnen - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The occurrence of aromaticity in organic molecules is widely accepted, but its occurrence in
purely metallic systems is less widespread. Molecules comprising only metal atoms (M) are …

All-electron scalar relativistic basis sets for the actinides

DA Pantazis, F Neese - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Increasing interest in the computational modeling of actinide compounds creates the need
for alternative choices when in comes to fine tuning the computational methodology in order …

Recent advances in metallaaromatic chemistry

BJ Frogley, LJ Wright - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metallaaromatics can be broadly defined as aromatic compounds in which one of the ring
atoms is a transition metal. The metallabenzenes are one important class of these …

Recent developments and future prospects of all-metal aromatic compounds

JM Mercero, AI Boldyrev, G Merino… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The usefulness of aromaticity/antiaromaticity concepts to foresee structural stability patterns
and salient features of the electronic structure of small inorganic and all-metal rings has …

All-metal aromaticity: revisiting the ring current model among transition metal clusters

Z Badri, S Pathak, H Fliegl… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present new insight into the nature of aromaticity in metal clusters. We give
computational arguments in favor of using the ring-current model over local indices, such as …

Metalloaromaticity

F Feixas, E Matito, J Poater… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, the study of aromaticity has experienced enormous progress. The new
discoveries, which include species such as the metallabenzenes, heterometallabenzenes …