Trimetallic carbido clusterfullerenes (CCFs) represent the simplest metal carbido complexes with the ligands being only carbon atoms, but the formation prerequisite is unclear. Herein, the authors report the syntheses of three novel vanadium(V)-based CCFs featuring high vanadium valence state and propose a supplemental Octet Rule
- Runnan Guan
- Jing Huang
- Su-Yuan Xie
