Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. Theory and Concepts in Main-Group Cluster Chemistry (R. King & P. Schleyer).
2.1 Homonuclear Boron Clusters (H. Nöth).
2.2 Boron Clusters in Medical Applications (D. Gabel & Y. Endo).
2.3 Clusters of the Heavier Group 13 Elements (G. Schnöckel, et al.).
2.4 Discret and Extended Metal Clusters in Alloys with Mercury and Other Group 12 Elements (H. Deiseroth).
2.5 Molecular Cages and Clusters of the Heavier Group 14 Elements (E= Si, Ge, Sn or Pb) of Formula EnRm (n > m) (N. Wiberg & P. Power).
2.6 Homoatomic Cages and Clusters of the Heavier Group 15 Elements: Neutral Species and Cations (I. Krossing).
2.7 Cages and Clusters of the Chaicogens (W. Sheldrick).
3.1 Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Suboxides and Subnitrides (A. Simon).
3.2 Carboranes: From Small Organoboranes to Clusters (A. Berndt, et al.).
3.3 Heteropolyboranes With the Heavier Group 14 Elements (L. Wesemann & N. Hosmane).
3.4 Borane Clusters with Group 15 and Group 16 Heteroatoms: Survey of Compounds and Structures (P. Paetzold).
3.5 Heteropolyalanes, -gallanes, -indanes and -thallanes (W. Uhl and H. Roesky).
3.6 Cluster Growing Through Ionic Aggregation: Synthesis and Structural Principles of Main Group Metal—Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Arsenic Rich Clusters (M. Driess, et al.).
Index.
Matthias Driess was born in 1961 in Eisenach, Thuringia. He
received his chemistry diploma and Ph.D. degree from the University
of Heidelberg under the supervision of Professor Walter Siebert and
studied philosophy inspired by Professor Erhard Scheibe
(Heidelberg) and Paul Feyerabend (ETH Zürich and Berkeley). After a
one-year postdoctoral position with Professor Robert West in
Madison, Wisconsin (U.S.A.), he returned to Heidelberg and finished
his habilitation with the thesis entitled "silicon and phosphorus
in unusual coordination" in 1993. After two more intellectually
exciting years as lecturer at the Institutte of Inorganic Chemistry
in Heidelberg, he was appointed as full professor of inorganic
chemistry at the Ruhr-University Bochum in 1996. His research
activities presently pursue two main directions: the synthesis of
novel molecular functions based on compounds of the heavier main
group elements and the conception of multiple-talented molecular
single-source precursors for the synthesis of nanoscaled solids in
catalysis and materials science. He received a generous fellowship
of the "Fonds der Chemischen Indistrie" (1996), the Chemistry Award
of the Academy of Science at the University of Göttingen (1997) and
the "Otto-Klung-Award of Chemistry" of the Free University at
Berlin (2000).
Heinrich Nöth is professor emeritus of inorganic chemistry at the
University of Munich and President of the Bavarian Academy of
Sciences and Humanities. He studied chemistry at the University of
Munich. After receiving his PhD degree he joined ICI Ltd. in
Britain as a research officer. A year later he returned to Munich
where he began his studies on electronprecise polyboranes. In 1966
he became a full professor at the University of Marburg. Three
years later he succeeded his former academic teacher, Egon Wiberg,
at the University of Munich where he retired in 1996. He is still
active in the field of main group chemistry, with a strong emphasis
on hydrides and particularly the chemistry of boron, and has made
almost 800 publications to date.
"This book is by far the best such compilation produced to date." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 16, 2005) "The present publication will be of great value for researchers working with molecular clusters." (E-STREAMS, November 2004)
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