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The book demonstrates the power of skeletal numbers to enable the classification of clusters of the main group elements and transition metals into clans and families. The skeletal numbers are utilized to decompose a chemical formula into a whole number, from which the series formula S=4n+q and the categorization parameter K = Cy+Dz are readily derived. Both formulas can be applied to any cluster formula to calculate the cluster valence electrons.This book provides more than 60 cluster examples worked out and most of them explained. The range of clusters include, metal carbonyls, boranes, metalloboranes, carboranes, golden clusters, zintl ions, matryoshka clusters, and giant clusters. The book also demonstrates the fact that skeletal numbers and cluster valency electrons of main group and transitional metal elements are intertwined.
About the author
Enos Masheija Rwantale Kiremire graduated with BSc(Hons) degree majoring in Chemistry from, University of East Africa, Makerere University College, Uganda in 1970. He had the opportunity to be taught briefly by an inspiring notable visiting chemist, Prof. C.A. Coulson. He later did a PhD, graduating in 1977 March at the University of New Brunswick.
