Clusters and catalysis, a comment

A brief overview of cluster structure and, to some extent, bonding, is contained in Metal clusters revisited, by J. Lewis, Chemistry in Britain (1988) 795. A more complete picture is given in The Chemistry of Metal Cluster Complexes by D. F. Shriver, H. D. Kaesz and R. D. Adams (Eds.), VCH, New York, 1990. 

Wade theory is detailed in Transition Metal Clusters B. F. G. Johnson (Ed.), Wiley, 1980, Chapter 3 Some Bonding Considerations , by K. Wade. 

Transition-Metal Clusters and Related Compounds by A. J. Stone, Inorg. Chem. (1981) 20, 563. 

The problem of electron correlation is discussed in Problems in the Theoretical Description of Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds or How I Learned to Hate the Electron Correlation Problem , M. B. Hall. Polyhedron (1987) 6, 679. 

A brief review of graph-theoretical ideas is to be found in Mathematical methods in coordination chemistry topological and graph-theoretical ideas in the study of metal clusters and polyhedral isomerizations by R. B. King, Coord. Chem. Rev. (1993) 122, 91. 

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