Publication Date:
2015-02-27
Description:
Professor Dunitz questions the usefulness of ascribing crystalline structural stability to individual atom–atom intermolecular interactions viewed as bonding (hence stabilizing) whenever linked by a bond path. An alternative view is expressed in the present essay that articulates the validity and usefulness of the bond path concept in a crystallographic and crystal engineering context.
Keywords:
bond paths in crystalscrystal bindingcrystal stabilityelectron densityquantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM)high-resolution X-ray diffractionsynthons
Electronic ISSN:
2052-2525
Topics:
Geosciences
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Physics