Polyhedra in (inorganic) chemistry

Santiago Alvarez

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Polyhedra in (inorganic) chemistry†

Santiago Alvarez^a

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^a Departament de Química Inorgànica and Centre de Recerca en Química Teòrica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, Barcelona

Abstract

A systematic description of polyhedra with varying degrees of regularity is illustrated with examples of chemical structures, mostly from different fields of Inorganic Chemistry. Also the geometrical relationships between different polyhedra are highlighted and their application to the analysis of complex structures is discussed.

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Table S1: Complete list of the Johnson polyhedra, ordered according to the number of vertices ( V), giving the number of edges ( E) and faces ( F) in each case. Table S2: Nested polyhedra that appear as successive shells in prototypical solid state structures. The shells are ordered according to increasing distance to the center. Table S3: Nested polyhedra of icosahedral symmetry in the molecular structure of [Pd ₁₄₅(CO) _x(PEt ₃) ₃₀]. Fig. S1: Polyhedra generated from a dodecahedron through augmentation and truncation operations. Fig. S2: Polyhedra generated from a cube through augmentation and truncation operations. Fig. S3: Diamond shells 2 and 6 around centroid of adamantanoid unit, forming an octahedron and a truncated octahedron. Fig. S4: Generation of an approximate icosahedron of bridging selenide ions in an Ag ₈ cube in the molecular structure of Ag ₈Cl ₂[Se ₂P(OEt) ₂] ₆ PDF (448K)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B503582C
Article type: Perspective
Submitted: 09 Mar 2005
Accepted: 03 May 2005
First published: 09 Jun 2005

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Dalton Trans., 2005, 2209-2233

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