Group 15 Cages

Keywords Hypersilyl / Group 15 Cages / Cyclotrisilane / Crystal Structure... 

In outdoor enclosures treated with urine and soiled bedding from male mice, mouse populations grew to larger numbers than in water-treated control enclosures. Populations in enclosures treated with urine and soiled bedding from group-caged females, however, grew less than the water controls. Females... 

Structure type Unit cell content Space group Cage Symmetry of cages... 

Hardie. M.J. Raston. C.L. Confinement and recognition of ieosahedral main group cage molecules Fullerene Cgo and o-,m-. /7-dicarbadodecaborane(12). Chem. Commun. 1999. 1153-1163. 

The hydrophobic effect. Water molecules around a non-polar solute form a cage-like structure, which ices the entropy. When two non-polar groups associate, water molecules are liberated, increasing the entropy. 

Figure 5.1 The reaction of A and B groups at the ends of two different chains. Note that rotations around only a few bonds will bring A and B into the same cage of neighboring groups, indicated by the broken line enclosure.

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