title: Experimental and Theoretical Observations of Aromaticity in Heterocyclic XAl(3)(-) (X=Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) Systems The experimental work reported herein was supported by the National Science Foundation (DMR-0095828) and was performed at the W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated for DOE by the Battelle Memorial Institute. L.S.W. is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. The theoretical work was carried out at the Utah State University and was supported by the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF 35255-AC6), administered by the American Chemical Society.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Washington State University 2710 University Drive, Richland, WA 99 352 (USA) and W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, MS K8-88 P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99 352 (USA).
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