Charge-shift bonding and its manifestations in chemistry

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 443-449

  Shaik, Sason ^a   Danovich, David ^a   Wu, Wei ^b   Hiberty, Philippe C ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGED COMPOUND; GERMANIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

BRIDGED COMPOUNDS; GERMANIUM; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON;

EID: 69249209772     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.327     Document Type: Article

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