Yan-Bo Wu

TL;DR: The observation of an all-boron fullerene-like cage cluster at B40(-) with an extremely low electron-binding energy is reported, by photoelectron spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations show that this arises from a cage structure with a large energy gap, but that a quasi-planar isomer of B40 (-) with two adjacent hexagonal holes is slightly more stable than the fullerenes structure.

TL;DR: The quantum theory of concerted electronic and nuclear fluxes (CENFs) associated with electronically adiabatic intramolecular processes is presented and it is emphasized how the electronic continuity equation can be employed to circumvent the failure of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.

TL;DR: The synthesis and spectroscopic identification of the trisbenzene complexes of strontium and barium M(Bz)3 in low‐temperature Ne matrix suggest that the heavier alkaline earth atoms exhibit the full bonding scenario of transition metals.

TL;DR: The detailed analyses indicate that the introduction of Li(+) into 1a only influences the electrovalent bonding and the σ aromaticity while the structures, the bonding properties, the π aromaticity, and so forth are almost unchanged.

TL;DR: The results obtained in this work enrich the analogous relationship between hydroborons and their hydrocarbon counterparts and help to understand the high stability of the theoretically predicted all-boron nanostructures which favor the formation of double-chain substructures.