Chemical Bonding in Transition Metal Compounds

Diverse reactivity of a tricoordinate organoboron L2PhB: (L = oxazol-2-ylidene) towards alkali metal, group 9 metal, and coinage metal precursors

“…2 ). 10 , 11 They also developed an efficient synthetic route to relevant derivatives VII and VIII . 12 Despite the development of unique compounds VI–VIII , studies dealing with them are limited to their protonation reaction with Brønsted acids that afforded boronium species, and oxidation to generate radical cations.…”

Chemical Bond Formation and Rupture Processes: An Application of DFT–Chemical Pressure Approach

“…The distribution of the additional charge within the unit cell between In and P atoms is shown in Figure 9. It is clear that the incoming electrons are more attracted by In atoms to fill the empty subshells, while the electron distribution percentage for P atoms is always less since the outer subshell is half filled, [Ne] 3s 2 3p 3 . In terms of the hard and soft acids and bases principle (HSAB), 61 In and P are categorized as intermediate acid (electronpair acceptor) and soft base (electron-pair donor), respectively.…”

Chemical Bonding: The Journey from Miniature Hooks to Density Functional Theory

“…Accordingly, it concentrates upon the introduction of new ideas and the controversies and changes that resulted rather than providing a full history of their development after acceptance. The reader is referred to modern texts on bonding [2][3][4][5], in particular the three-volume work by Mike Mingos celebrating the centennial of the chemical bond [6][7][8]. As always, we are indebted to those historians of science who have trodden this path before us in such an able and comprehensive manner [9][10][11][12][13].…”