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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Polyhedron. 2013 Feb 19;58:206–217. doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2013.02.031

Table 1.

Volumes (Å3) of Miscellaneous Moleculesa

V3) CSD refcode
C8H8 (Oh cubane) 3.73b CUBANE
C20H20 (Ih dodecahedrane) 28.21c DOPSIK01
C60 (buckerminsterfullerene) 162.4d d
[B10H10]2− (D4d bicapped square antiprism) 8.30e WIYVEF
[B12H12]2− (Ih icosahedron) 12.37f ETADCB
V(M4) V(Q4) V(M4Q4) 3)
[Co4S4(PiPr3)4] 2.08 5.26 8.50 LUGJAZ
[Fe4S4(StBu)4]2− 2.43 5.59 9.62 KEYWAM
[Cp4Fe4S4] 3.27 3.07 10.16 CPEFES01
[Al4S4(CMe2Et)4] 3.32 4.93 11.36 REKYIP
[[Al4Se4(CMe2Et)4] 3.73 6.14 13.22 REKYOV
[Ga4Se4(CMe2Et)4] 3.83 6.21 13.50 REKZAI
[Ga4Te4(CMe2Et)4] 4.73 8.10 16.99 REKZEM
[Tl4(OCH2CMe3)4] 6.25 3.78 15.85 MILBAK
a

Volume formulae are available in ref. 27 except for that of the C60 truncated icosahedron, which is derived in Supporting Information.

b

Edge length a = 1.551 Å.

c

Ih dodecahedron: V = (1/ 4)[15 + 7√5]a3, a = 1.540 Å.

d

Ih truncated icosahedron: V = (5/ 12)(3 + √5)(2a + b)3 - (1/ 2)(5 + √5)a3, a = 1.455 Å (intrapentagon), b = 1.391 (interpentagon); David, W. I. F.; Ibberson, R. M.; Mathewman, J. C.; Prassides, K.; Dennis. T. J. S.; Hare, J. P.; Kroto, H. W.; Taylor, R.; Walton, D. R. M. Nature 1991, 353, 147-149.

e

D4d uniform square antiprism: V = (1/ 3)[4 + 3√2]½a3; a = 1.828 Å. Square pyramid: V= (1/ 3)a2(e2 - a2/ 2)½, a = 1.828 Å (basal edge), e = 1.697 Å (lateral edge).

f

Ih icosahedron: V = (5/ 12)(3 + √5)a3, a = 1.783 Å.