An Investigation of Electronic Structure and Aromaticity in Medium-Sized Nanoclusters of Gold-Doped Germanium

Figure 1

Equilibrium structures of the lowest-energy 𝐷_5ℎ-symmetric AuGe⁻₁₀ (a) and 𝐷_2𝑑-symmetric AuGe⁻₁₂ (b) clusters in [44]. The different NICS sites (purple balls) are indicated.

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