Bond and bonding strength

Mo2(02CCH2).. Metal compounds with multiple metal-metal bonds such as Mo2(02CCH3)4 of symmetry, have attracted much experimental and theoretical attention focussed on the description of bonding and bond strength (46-48). Their electronic structure has been investigated experimentally by various methods such as resonance Raman, photoelectron spectroscopy, ultraviolet absorption and polarization studies of the matrix isolated sample (49-56). 

This chapter assumes that we know about energy (Section A) and the ideal gas law (Chapter 4). Some of the interpretations refer to intermolecular forces (Sections 4.14 and 5.1-5.5). The material here builds on the introduction to ionic bonding and bond strengths in Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.16, and 2.17. 

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