Cubic clusters in solids

Molecules and solids based on cubic rather than octahedral motifs are less abundant in chemistry. The former were treated in Section 5.2.5 and now we consider a few solid-state analogs. Similar cubic architectures are found in (Fe/Co/Ni Ss, or synthetic C09S8 transition-metal sulfide minerals called pentlandites. In a binary 

We have come to the end of our gallery tour of solid-state systems with useful molecular connections. What we have tried to do in this chapter is to explore a link 

The octahedral molecular cluster anion IMofitp -ClhCh,]2- with Oh symmetry shown below is an analog of the molecular cluster [MoeClsLg]4 1 described in Section 3.3.5. 

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