Homocatenation of aluminum: alkane-like structures of Li2Al2 H6 and Li3Al3H8.
Invited for the cover of this issue is Alexander I. Boldyrev and co-workers at Utah State University. The image depicts the magician who symbolizes a chemist synthesizing molecules of "aluminum homocatenated ethane and propane" based on the idea of electronic transmutation. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.201500298.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, 0300 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322 (USA).
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