Chemical bonding characterization

This chapter shows that the ionic model can not only be presented in terms of chemical bonds characterized by their electrostatic flux, but also that the improbable assumptions of the model are satisfied by the wide range of compounds that conform to the following two conditions ... 

Despite the fact that HF or Kohn- CF equations provide in principle the complete set of electronic orbitals that describe the multi-electronic-poly center bonds, Iheir main drawback is that of providing the delocalized description over an entire molecular space. Such an analysis has to be accomplished with special techniques through which the localized orbitals and localized chemical bond are to be recovered (Putz Chiriac, 2008 Putz, 2009). Only this way can quantum mechanics provide a viable rationale, i.e., quantum chemistry, in chemical bond characterization. Nevertheless, such a rationale can be achieved in two ways one of them involves the orbital transformation producing the localized set of orbitals and indices (Daudel et al., 1983) the other one, based on electronic density, includes the electronic density, to a certain degree, into an electronic localization super) function 11 1 so as to generate a local, analytical indication of the electronic pair of the chemical bond (Becke Edgecombe, 1990 Schmidera Becke, 2002 Berski et al, 2003 Kohout et al., 2004 Nesbet, 2002 Putz, 2005). 

From the competition of the attractive term with the repulsive one, in Eq. (4.36), the chemical bond, characterized by Ihe equilibrium conditions applied to the total potential, is modelled. Thus, there can be written ... 

However, since the quantum existence of the atoms in molecules represents the key to chemical bonding description depending on how much of the individuahty of an atom is preserved and how much of it is transferred to the bond, the localization level appears as a compulsory next stage in chemical bond characterization, hr this context the idea of molecular partitioning in terms of the domains of stability ofmolecular electronic density was advanced. 

FIGURE 2.1 Synopsis of the intensive, local, and global levels of quantum chemistry and their inter-relation respecting the chemical bond characterization towards QSP(A)R (quantitative structure-property(acti vity) relationship] modeling the chemical and chemical-biological complex interaction after (Putz Chiriac, 2008). 

In the last stage, the electron clouds are superimposed forming new electronic structures, which are strong chemical bonds, characterizing the chemisorption phenomena, as shown in Fig. 4.14. 

A related advantage of studying crystalline matter is that one can have synnnetry-related operations that greatly expedite the discussion of a chemical bond. For example, in an elemental crystal of diamond, all the chemical bonds are equivalent. There are no tenninating bonds and the characterization of one bond is sufficient to understand die entire system. If one were to know the binding energy or polarizability associated with one bond, then properties of the diamond crystal associated with all the bonds could be extracted. In contrast, molecular systems often contain different bonds and always have atoms at the boundary between the molecule and the vacuum. 

On the other hand, fluorine s high electronegativity and its ability to form mostly ionic chemical bonds, provide materials with several useful properties. First, compared to oxides, fluoride compounds have a wide forbidden zone and as a result, have low electroconductivity. In addition, fluorides are characterized by a high transparency in a wide optical range that allows for their application in the manufacturing of electro-optical devices that operate in the UV region [42,43]. 

Second, the theory of hybrid bond orbitals was utilized recently to discover a new type of chemical bond involving the resonating unshared electron pair.30 31 For example, bis(bistrimethylsilylmethyl) tin(II), (CH3)3 Si 2HCSnCH Si(CH3)3 2, forms dimers in the solid state having a tin-tin bond characterized by resonance of an unshared electron pair or... 

Physisorption is a weak interaction characterized by the lack of a true chemical bond between adsorbate and surface, i.e. no electrons are shared. The physisorption interaction is conveniently divided into to parts A strongly repulsive part at close distances and Van der Waals interactions at medium distances of a few A. 

Many of the parameters above are by themselves interrelated. Thus, the heat of sublimahon characterizing the chemical bond strength in the crystal lathee correlates with the temperature of fusion and with the compressibility of a metal. Therefore, finding a correlahon with a new parameter does not necessarily imply the gain of new, independent information concerning the nature of catalyhc achon. 

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