title: The significance and impact of Wade's rules.
abstract: The emergence of a set of simple yet powerful electron counting rules following a classic paper by Wade published in 1971 in J. Chem. Soc. D has transformed the way chemists think about the structures of clusters with delocalised skeletal bonding.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK. a.j.welch@hw.ac.uk
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Welch