50th Anniversary of Electron Counting Paradigms for Polyhedral Molecules

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Personal Historical Perspective on the Development of Electron Counting Rules for Boranes and Clusters and Ken Wade’s Contribution

   • D. Michael P. Mingos

   Pages 1-66

3. Introduction to Tensor Surface Harmonic Theory

   • D. Michael P. Mingos

   Pages 67-108

4. Borane Polyhedra Beyond Icosahedron

   • Sourav Kar, Sundargopal Ghosh

   Pages 109-138

5. Beyond the Wade-Mingos Rules: Deviations from Sphericality in Metallaborane Structures

   • Alexandru Lupan, Amr A. A. Attia, Szabolcs Jákó, Attila-Zsolt Kun, R. Bruce King

   Pages 139-161

6. Bis(carboranes) and Their Derivatives

   • Alan J. Welch

   Pages 163-195

7. Borane and Carbaborane Clusters Meet Coordination Polymers and Networks: In the Hole or in the Backbone?

   • Catherine E. Housecroft

   Pages 197-247

The 50 Year Anniversary of the development of electron counting paradigms for polyhedral molecules is celebrated in two volumes of Structure and Bonding.  Volume 1 covers the historical development, theoretical models and applications to boranes and metalloboranes.

• Polyhedral Bonding Models
• Bis(carboranes)
• Metalloboranes
• Zintl Clusters
• Wade Clusters
• Wade-Mingos rules
• Fullerenes
• Electron Transfer

• Chemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  D. Michael P. Mingos

Michael Mingos was born in Basra, Iraq in 1944 and was educated in England (Manchester, B.Sc. in Chemistry 1965) and University of Sussex (D.Phil, 1968). He has held academic posts at QMC, Oxford (Keble College), Imperial College, St Edmund Hall (Principal,1999-2009). His theoretical research has resulted in generalisations which have greatly influenced the development and teaching of modern inorganic chemistry. Specifically the Wade-Mingos Rules which rationalise the structures of polyhedral inorganic molecules and the Green-Davies-Mingos Rules, which account for some of the nucleophilic reactions  of organometallic compounds. His group has experimentally verified some of his theoretical predictions, for example an icosahedral molecule containing gold atoms -which is relevant for understanding the metal’s nano-technological possibilities. He has also contributed to the understanding of the bonding properties of nitric oxide, an important cellular signalling molecule involved in many physiological processes and pioneered the acceleration of chemical reactions using microwave energy. He was elected the Royal Society in 1992 and the European Academy of Sciences in 2017. He holds honorary doctorates from Sussex and Manchester Universities and received many prizes – the most recent was the Blaise Pascal Medal in 2017.