text: Wades rules are successful in describing the geometry of the anionic sublattice of Zintl phases and of Zintl ions but not the electronic structure. Other spherical shell models with spherical harmonic wave functions for molecular orbitals—analogous to atomic orbitals—that describe the clusters as pseduo elements. The Jellium model uses a spherical potential from the nuclei to give orbitals with global nodal properties. Again, this formulates the cluster as a super atom' with an electron configuration comparable to a single atom. The model is best applied to spherically symmetric systems, and two examples for which it works well are the icosahedral Al and [Sn@Cu@Sn] clusters. DFT or ab initio molecular orbital calculations similarly treat the clusters with atomic, and correspondingly label them S, P, D etc. These closed shell configurations have prompted some investigation of 3D aromaticity. This concept was first suggested for fullerenes and corresponds to a 2(N+1) rule in the spherical shell model. An indicator of this phenomenon is a negative Nucleus Independent Chemical Shift (NICS) values of the center of the cluster or of certain additional high symmetry points.