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Recent years have seen the development of simple molecular orbital based ideas to view the structures of molecular ring, cage and cluster compounds. The principles of these methods are used here to demonstrate in a new way how the structures of solids depend on electronic configuration.
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Burdett, J. Application of ‘molecular’ theories to the structure of the crystalline state. Nature 279, 121–125 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279121a0
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