Mak, Thomas C. W. 1936- creator author. Cheung, Yu-San author. Zhou, Gong-du 1931- author. Wang, Ying-Xia author. text bibliography enk 2023 monographic eng 1 online resource : illustrations. This text deals with main-group elements, the rare-earth elements, transition-metal clusters, and supramolecular systems, including selected material from significant recent advances in inorganic chemistry, with particular emphasis on compounds that exemplify new types of bonds. 3.6.3 Compounds containing M-M bonds -- 3.6.4 Linear catenation in heavier Group 13 elements -- 3.7 Structure of Naked Anionic Metalloid Clusters -- 3.7.1 Structure of Ga84[N(SiMe3)2]204- -- 3.7.2 Structure of NaTl -- 3.7.3 Naked Tlnm- anion clusters -- 3.8 Ligand "Brackets'' for GaGa Bond -- 3.9 Molecular Indium(III) Phosphonates Possessing Ring and Cage Structures -- 3.10 Thallium(I) polymeric compounds containing linear Tl(I)-M arrays [M = Pt(II), Au(I)] -- 3.10.1 Supramolecular compounds with Tl-Pt polymeric chains -- 3.10.2 Supramolecular compounds with Tl-Au polymeric chains -- 3.11 Platinum-Thallium Clusters -- 3.12 Triel Bonding and Coordination of Triel Centers -- General References -- 4 Structural Chemistry of Group 14 Elements -- 4.1 Allotropic Modifications of Carbon -- 4.1.1 Diamond -- 4.1.2 Graphite -- 4.1.3 Fullerenes -- 4.1.4 Fullerenes with fused pentagonal faces -- 4.1.5 Amorphous carbon -- 4.1.6 Graphene -- 4.1.7 New planar sp2-hybridized carbon allotrope -- 4.1.8 Carbon nanotubes -- 4.1.9 Filled carbon nanotubes -- 4.2 Compounds of Carbon -- 4.2.1 Aliphatic compounds -- 4.2.2 Aromatic compounds -- 4.2.3 Fullerenic compounds -- 4.3 Bonding in Carbon Compounds -- 4.3.1 Types of bonds formed by the carbon atom -- 4.3.2 Coordination numbers of carbon -- 4.3.3 Bond lengths of C-C and C-X bonds -- 4.3.4 Factors influencing bond lengths -- 4.3.5 Abnormal carbon-carbon single bonds -- 4.3.6 Highly twisted polyhexacycles -- 4.3.7 Topological molecular nanocarbons: all-benzene catenanes and trefoil knot -- 4.3.8 Complexes containing a naked carbon atom -- 4.3.9 Carbon atom functioning as an electron-pair donor -- 4.3.10 Complexes containing naked dicarbon ligands -- 4.4 Gold and Silver Carbone Complexes -- 4.5 Phosphine-Sulfoxide Carbon(0) Complexes -- 4.6 Structural Chemistry of Silicon -- 4.6.1 Comparison of silicon and carbon. Specialized. specialized Thomas C.W. Mak, Yu San Cheung, Gong-Du Zhou, Yingxia Wang. Also issued in print: 2023. Includes bibliographical references. Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and theoretical Periodic table of the elements inorganic chemistry physical chemistry periodic table Chemistry Science QD475 .M35 2023 Mak, Thomas C. W., 1936- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023] (DLC) 2023931642 9780191983825 0191983829 9780198872962 0198872968 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3706132 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3706132 EBZ 230809 20251029164109.0 on1401008456 eng