Covalent-ionic interaction

An eclectic model has been proposed [280] to describe these dynamics. It includes the separate two-body reactant and product interactions of the optical model with an attractive covalent—ionic interaction between the reactants and a photodissociation-derived repulsion between the products. An impulsive model partitions the repulsive energy release between the product translational and internal modes. There is an abrupt switch between the reactant and product trajectories which occurs for a Cl ... 

Even though the DLVO theory explains the viruses on various surfaces quite well, it might be argued that the fit is possibly coincidental. For this reason we examined other possible interaction mechanisms to determine whether adsorption can be explained in other ways. Other mechanisms considered include electrostatic-induced image interactions, covalent-ionic interactions, hydrophobic interactions, and hydrogen bonding. 

Covalent-Ionic Interaction. Covalent-ionic interactions appear to be important in the adsorption of small molecules on various materials, for example, octyl hydroxamate on Fc203 (48), where the functional group of the adsorbate is known to form strong aqueous complexes with metal ions (in this case Fe ) present in surface sites of the respective substrate. 

This suggests that if covalent-ionic interactions control adsorption, we could expect viruses to be strongly adsorbed to CuO, but only weakly adsorbed, if at all, to our other oxide surfaces. This is clearly inconsistent with observed trends in virus adsorption, suggesting that here, covalent-ionic interactions are not involved to any major extent, especially considering the good correspondence obtained with the DLVO-Lifshitz theory. 

Ionic character can be introduced into a network in much the same way as crosslinking. Polyelectrolytes can be incorporated into the network by chemical crosslinking or non-covalent ionic interactions ionic monomers can be copolymerized with nonionic monomers or nonionic polymers can be converted to ionic ones by chemical conversion, with the hydrolysis of polyacrylamide to poly acryllc acid) being one example. 

A large number of ordered surface structures can be produced experimentally on single-crystal surfaces, especially with adsorbates [H]. There are also many disordered surfaces. Ordering is driven by the interactions between atoms, ions or molecules in the surface region. These forces can be of various types covalent, ionic, van der Waals, etc and there can be a mix of such types of interaction, not only within a given bond, but also from bond to bond in the same surface. A surface could, for instance, consist of a bulk material with one type of internal bonding (say, ionic). It may be covered with an overlayer of molecules with a different type of intramolecular bonding (typically covalent) and the molecules may be held to the substrate by yet another fomi of bond (e.g., van der Waals). 

Acid-base interactions in the most general Lewis sense occur whenever an electron pair from one of the participants is shared in the formation of a complex, or an adduct . They include hydrogen bonding as one type of such a bond. The bond may vary from an ionic interaction in one extreme to a covalent bond in the other. Acid-base interactions and their importance in interfacial phenomena have been reviewed extensively elsewhere [35,78] and will be described only briefly here. 

Based on the concept of mixed-framework lattices, we have reported a novel class of hybrid solids that were discovered via salt-inclusion synthesis [4—7]. These new compounds exhibit composite frameworks of covalent and ionic lattices made of transition-metal oxides and alkali and alkaline-earth metal halides, respectively [4]. It has been demonstrated that the covalent frameworks can be tailored by changing the size and concentration of the incorporated salt. The interaction at the interface of these two chemically dissimilar lattices varies depending upon the relative strength of covalent vs. ionic interaction of the corresponding components. In some cases, the weak interaction facilitates an easy... 

In summary, we can say that, because of the unique absence of angular and radial nodes in the H-atom valence shell, the hydride oah orbital is uniquely suited to strong n-a donor-acceptor interactions with Lewis bases. In turn, the unique energetic and angular features of nB-aAH interactions (or equivalently, of B H—A <—> B—H+ A covalent-ionic resonance) can be directly associated with the distinctive structural and spectroscopic properties of B - H—A hydrogen bonding. 

Solute adsorption can be minimized most effectively by capillary wall coating, thereby decreasing the free energy of hydrophobic or ionic interactions. Coating can be achieved either by covalently bonded organic modifiers, e.g., polyacrylamides, sulfonic acids, polyethylene glycols, maltose, and polyvinyl pyrolidinone, or by dynamic deactivation (i.e., addition of... 

With the topological analysis of the total charge density, the distinction between a covalent and a closed-shell ionic interaction can be based on the value of the Laplacian and its components at the bond critical point. Such an analysis will be most conclusive when done on a series of related compounds, analyzed with identical basis sets, as the topological values of the model density from experimental data have been found to be quite dependent on the choice of basis functions. 

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