Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory
Teoría de los pares de electrones esqueléticos de un poliedro.
- Date
- 1971-1980 · confidence low
- Place
- Durham, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Kenneth Wade y Michael Mingos
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Electron-counting rules that predict the structures of clusters such as boranes and carboranes from a molecular-orbital treatment; formulated by Kenneth Wade and later extended by Michael Mingos.
What it led to
- systematic prediction of boron cluster structures
- extension to metal clusters (Wade–Mingos rules)
- later unification with the Jemmis mno rules
- advances in organometallic chemistry