Crystal Growth & Design, 2006

Reference: A. S. Filatov, A. Yu. Rogachev, M. A. Petrukhina "Gas-phase assembling of dirhodium units into a novel organometallic ladder: structural and DFT study" Cryst. Growth & Des., 2006, 6, 1479-1484. (ACS copyright.)

I used the first picture as a synopsis. The second one is slightly changed compared to the one published in the article. The idea of a "funnel" reaction is not mine, I've seen it before.
But I wanted to show that something is going inside that funnel and scientists are still trying to get closer to the understanding what exactly is going in the funnel. The perception process may going on forever but it does not make it much less interesting.

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