A bonding Quandary-or-A demonstration of the fact that scientists are not born with logic

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 34, 2009, Pages 8358-8373

  Alvarez, Santiago ^a   Hoffmann, Roald ^b   Mealli, Carlo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c ICCOM CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bond lengths; Chemical bonding; Cluster compounds; S s bonding; Sulfides

Indexed keywords

ANTIBONDING; CHEMICAL BONDING; CHEMICAL LITERATURE; CLUSTER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON COUNTING; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION STATE; S-S BONDING; SPECIFIC BONDS; SULFIDES;

INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SULFUR;

BOND LENGTH;

EID: 69249148256     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900239     Document Type: Article

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