Nested cages

Covalently-bonded nested cages with sp- and/or sp -hybridized carbon, or carbon and silicon atoms... 

Magnetic properties of iron nanocrystals nested in carbon cages, which grew on the cathode deposit, have been studied by Fliura el al.[29]. Magnetization (M-H) curves showed that the coercive force. He, of... 

Nested (or onion-like) fullerenes built of several cages buried inside one another such as C60 C240 c540 C960 308, were found by using a Tunneling... 

CARBORANE. A cry stalline compound composed of boron, carbon, and hydrogen. It can be synthesized in various ways, chiefly by the reaction of a borane (penta-or deca-) with acetylene, either at high temperature in the gas phase or in the presence of a Lewis base. Alkylated derivatives have been prepared. Carborancs have different structural and chemical characteristics and should not be conTused with hydrocarbon derivatives or boron hydrides. The predominant structures arc the cage type, the nest type, and the web type, these terms being descriptive of the arrangement of atoms in the crystals. Active research on cargorane chemistry has been conducted under sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Naval Research, http //www.onr.navy.mil/... 

The first one was made in a concrete basin, 7 m long, 1.5 m wide and 1.6 m deep (Figure 5), in which 4 to 8 muskrats were kept. Nest boxes were made in the corners and two counting cages were placed on a raft near the middle of the basin. Animals visiting the cages were counted mechanically by a device attached to a flap which could swing in both directions. 

Boranes and carboranes have structures in which their skeletal B- or C-atoms form triangular-faced polyhedra. There are basically three structural types, namely the closo- (an euphonious modification of the Greek clovo = cage, i. e., a complete or closed polyhedron), the nido (from Latin nest-like ) and the arachno- (from Greek cob-web ) structure. Each of these three types is adopted by cluster compounds of specific atomic ratios. c/o o-Structures occur in borane dianions B H , in car-borane anions (CB iH ) , and carboranes (C2B 2H ). Each skeletal atom has a single H-atom terminally attached by a bond directed outwards, away from the polyhedron center (see the example of BioHio in Fig. 3-1 below). Wo-Structures are adopted by boranes B H +4 and their related carboranes CB iH +3, C2H 2H +2 etc., and amc/z/2o-structures by boranes B H +6 and related carboranes CB iH +5, C2B 2H +4 etc. In other words, carboranes have the general formula [(CH) (BH) Hc] , where the sum a + c + x) is equal to 2 for a closo-structure, 4 for a /do-structure, and 6 for an amc/z o-structure. 

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