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Science 2 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5505, pp. 841 - 842
DOI: 10.1126/science.1058418
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Perspectives

CHEMISTRY:
Aromatic Metal Clusters

Dong-Kyun Seo and John D. Corbett

Aromaticity is used to describe the particular stability of certain unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbons, but unambiguous evidence for substantial aromatic stabilization of molecules unrelated to these hydrocarbons has been lacking. In their Perspective, Seo and Corbett highlight the study by Li et al., who have synthesized Mal4-, the first aromatic metal clusters.

The authors are in the Ames Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. E-mail: seo{at}ameslab.gov, jdc{at}ameslab.gov

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