The chemical bond : chemical bonding across the periodic table /
"A unique overview of the different kinds of chemical bonds that can be found in the periodic table, from the main-group elements to transition elements, lanthanides and actinides. It takes into account the many developments that have taken place in the field over the past few decades due to th...
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Weinheim, Germany :
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Chemical Bonding of Main-Group Elements
- Multiple Bonding of Heavy Main-Group Atoms
- The Role of Recoupled Pair Bonding in Hypervalent Molecules
- Donor-Acceptor Complexes of Main-Group Elements
- Electron-Counting Rules in Cluster Bonding
- Polyhedral Boranes, Elemental Boron, and Boron-Rich Solids
- Bound Triplet Pairs in the Highest Spin States of Monovalent Metal Clusters
- Chemical Bonding in Transition Metal Compounds
- Chemical Bonding in Open-Shell Transition-Metal Complexes
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- The Quantum Chemistry of Transition Metal Surface Bonding and Reactivity
- Chemical Bonding of Lanthanides and Actinides
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- Magnetic Properties of Aromatic Compounds and Aromatic Transition States
- Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Aromatic Compounds
- Chemical Bonding in Solids
- Dispersion Interaction and Chemical Bonding
- Hydrogen Bonding
- Directional Electrostatic Bonding.
- The Chemical Bond; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Chemical Bonding of Main-Group Elements; 1.1 Introduction and Definitions; 1.2 The Lack of Radial Nodes of the 2p Shell Accounts for Most of the Peculiarities of the Chemistry of the 2p-Elements; 1.2.1 High Electronegativity and Small Size of the 2p-Elements; 1.2.1.1 Hybridization Defects; 1.2.2 The Inert-Pair Effect and its Dependence on Partial Charge of the Central Atom; 1.2.3 Stereo-Chemically Active versus Inactive Lone Pairs; 1.2.4 The Multiple-Bond Paradigm and the Question of Bond Strengths.
- 1.2.5 Influence of Hybridization Defects on Magnetic-Resonance Parameters1.3 The Role of the Outer d-Orbitals in Bonding; 1.4 Secondary Periodicities: Incomplete-Screening and Relativistic Effects; 1.5 Honorary d-Elements: the Peculiarities of Structure and Bonding of the Heavy Group 2 Elements; 1.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 2 Multiple Bonding of Heavy Main-Group Atoms; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Bonding Analysis of Diatomic Molecules E2 (E = N
- Bi); 2.3 Comparative Bonding Analysis of N2 and P2 with N4 and P4; 2.4 Bonding Analysis of the Tetrylynes HEEH (E = C
- Pb).
- 2.5 Explaining the Different Structures of the Tetrylynes HEEH (E = C
- Pb)2.6 Energy Decomposition Analysis of the Tetrylynes HEEH (E = C
- Pb); 2.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 3 The Role of Recoupled Pair Bonding in Hypervalent Molecules; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Multireference Wavefunction Treatment of Bonding; 3.3 Low-Lying States of SF and OF; 3.4 Low-Lying States of SF2 and OF2 (and Beyond); 3.4.1 SF2(X1A1); 3.4.2 SF2(a3B1); 3.4.3 SF2(b3A2); 3.4.4 OF2(X1A1); 3.4.5 Triplet states of OF2; 3.4.6 SF3 and SF4; 3.4.7 SF5 and SF6; 3.5 Comparison to Other Models.
- 3.5.1 Rundle-Pimentel 3c-4e Model3.5.2 Diabatic States Model; 3.5.3 Democracy Principle; 3.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4 Donor-Acceptor Complexes of Main-Group Elements; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Single-Center Complexes EL2; 4.2.1 Carbones CL2; 4.2.2 Isoelectronic Group 15 and Group 13 Homologues (N+)L2 and (BH)L2; 4.2.3 Donor-Acceptor Bonding in Heavier Tetrylenes ER2 and Tetrylones EL2 (E = Si
- Pb); 4.3 Two-Center Complexes E2L2; 4.3.1 Two-Center Group 14 Complexes Si2L2
- Pb2L2 (L = NHC); 4.3.2 Two-Center Group 13 and Group 15 Complexes B2L2 and N2L2; 4.4 Summary and Conclusion.
- 5.9 Electronic Structure of Elemental Boron and Boron-Rich Metal Borides
- Application of Electron-Counting Rules.
